yeah... but that's precisely the point. The IP shown in the email file
header is NOT in the same domain as the server 208.x.y.z that IMail is
trying to communicate with. It's something like 69.aaa.bbbb.cccc; a totally
different Class A. Not only that, but the emails come from a bunch of
DIFFERENT IPs. The 208.x.y.z is not shown anywhere in the email headers.
More to the point... how do I stop all this crap??? The only consistent
factor I can find is the 208.x.y.z that IMail is trying to talk to. But
since this IP isn't in the header, I see no way to tell IMail or Declude to
stop trying to talk to that server.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John T (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:12 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] help me understand this log entry
It is trying to validate the from address, so it is doing a lookup for an
MX
record and if not found an A record for the domain of the from address,
then
trying to contact a email server at that IP address to see if the from
address exists.
John T
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Imail_Forum-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Porter
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [IMail Forum] help me understand this log entry
I'm seeing an awful lot of the following log entry in my spam log... 10
to
15% of the total entries.
===============
11:07 00:00 SMTPD(403d01af0000e5f2) [00000276] <mydomainname.com>
VALIDATION: (MAIL FROM) mydomainname.com FAILED to communicate with
server
208.xx.yy.zzz
===============
When I look at the referenced SMTPD file in the spool, it doesn't contain
the 208. class IP. The syslog doesn't show the 208 class IP either. The
zzz
varies over most of the whole Class C.
The referenced A and D files are getting hung up in the spool directory
and
usually have to be deleted manually.
The 'Received From' IP shown in the partial header of the D file is
usually
in my Declude Blacklist so the email doesn't get delivered to a mailbox.
Since it is pretty much junk/spam anyway that's getting deleted, this is
more of an annoyance than anything else and it clutters up the spam log
making it much larger than it should be.
I just can't see why IMail is trying to talk to these servers.
TIA...
~Joe
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