Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Joost van der Lugt <jvdl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 11 June 2001 04:07, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to reconfigure sendmail so I no longer get
> the following errors (as taken from /var/log/mail)?
>
> The first error occurs for *every* email I receive. The second one
> occurs for several different originators.
>
> I have my system set up to use fetchamail to get mail from my ISP's
> POP3 account. It is then delivered locally to /var/spool/mail.
>
> ===================== from /var/log/mail =======================
>
> Jun 11 05:53:11 avalon sendmail[2197]: f5BArBu02197:
> Authentication-Warning: avalon.paulsen.org: Host [127.0.0.1] claimed to be
> localhost
>
> Jun 11 05:53:11 avalon sendmail[2197]: f5BArBu02197: ruleset=check_mail,
> arg1=<jvdl@xxxxxxxxxx>, relay=[127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8
> <jvdl@xxxxxxxxxx>... Domain of sender address jvdl@xxxxxxxxxx does not
> resolve
>
> Jun 11 05:53:11 avalon sendmail[2197]: f5BArBu02197:
> from=<jvdl@xxxxxxxxxx>, size=3302, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=[127.0.0.1]

Mmm, appears to be a DNS issue, try something like:

echo '/map host sirius.com' | sendmail -bt

Correct result is:
map_lookup: host (sirius.com) returns sirius.com. (0)

And if it doesn't check your DNS setup.

-- 
Cheers,
          
           Joost