Question about "daily run output"

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

samy lancher wrote:

>Hello,
>I have freeBSD 4.5 server. I check "daily run output" sent by server everyday. I  notice some change in the output from past few days. 
>In "Checking for rejected mail hosts:" I see following output:
>  14 miltnews.com
>   1 ohhello.com
>   1 OUTGOING25.myaccountemail.com
>   1 OUTGOING121.asapemailaccount.com
>This output changes everyday but there is always some thing or the other in this section. Till last week this section used be empty; but i starting getting these kind of messages from past few days. Is it some thing i need to worry about?,.
> 
>thanks in advance,
>Naveen.
>
>  
>

You have logs of mail server activity in
/var/log/maillog.  Quite often (though
*perhaps* not always) a look at the logs
will tell you why the mail was rejected.

Most likely, spammers with no reverse
DNS are being rejected, which is a default
Sendmail setting AFAIK.

Kevin Kinsey