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Re: Graylisting failing in some cases

2013-03-07 by ebel674

Thank you.
I will look this up too.
As you have stated, server is not and open relay, so I have no idea how this is happening...
There is nothing in sendmail logs that is of help either.
If you could point me to a good sendmail forum, I would be thankful...

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Johann Klasek <johann@...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 10:17:04AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:38 AM, abcde fgh <ebel674@...> wrote:
> [..]
> > > BUT the last few days my server is relaying mail from China IP addressess.
> > > I have checkjed it, but all checks say that it is not a open relay (IP : 195.88.12.36, you can check too).
> > >
> > > Characteristical for mails is this from logs :
> > > ?skipping greylist because this is the default action?
> > >
> > 
> > I think the greylist milter is the wrong place to look for this
> > problem.  Why is your sendmail accepting non-local addresses in the
> > first place?   Normally you need entries in the /etc/mail/access that
> > match the sender or they need to be authenticated, to accept them.
> 
> As I could see his side ok regarding 
>  * relaying foreign domains: will be denied
>  * accepting non existent local addresses: responds with user unknown
>  * handling of @localhost.localdomain or local domain as sender: relaying denied
> 
> Above milter-greylist message has nothing to do with relaying. A
> dicision in this regard will be made by Sendmail.
> To see what happened you should look for sendmail log entries. If you
> find such a transfer, gather all lines with the same queue-id ...
> As already mentioned, this maybe a case for a sendmail forum.
> 
> Anyway, provide as much information as possible if expect to get 
> a helpful answer. ;)
> 
> 
> Johann E. K.
>

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