On 2001-07-26, Martin Stricker wrote:
>Chris Kloiber wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Mike Chambers wrote:
>>
>> > I see this all the time from logcheck about my sendmail and always
>> > wondered what it meant. It obviously doesn't seem to stop anything
>> > as I still get all the emails (or do I?) but just wanted to know if
>> > it was something I could fix.
>> >
>> > Jul 25 17:11:57 homer sendmail[16391]: NOQUEUE: outmta021.topica.com
>> > [206.132.75.239] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection
>> > to MTA
>>
>> These can be generated by a portscan (connects to port 25 of your
>> machine, then disconnects without issuing any commands).
>
>If outmta021.topica.com really is a mail server (a telnet
>outmta021.topica.com 25 doesn't get through) you might want to contact
>it's administrator to thell him his server is severely misconfigured...
>Do you get such errors only from this server, or is it always another
>server?
IMHO, "out" and "mta" suggest that this server does not listen to
incoming connections.
Are you subscribed to mailing-lists at topica.com?
Have you tried to increase the sendmail logging?
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