Acepting lnown "bad" mail?

[Karl Pielorz]

--On 06 September 2006 06:59 -0400 stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> What's going on is that the local sendmail on the new machine is rejecting
> these mails. Like this
>
> Sep  6 06:50:43 brown sm-mta[12249]: k86Ai3w8012249: ruleset=check_mail,
> arg1=<r oot at AW0001.meadwestvaco.com>, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1],
> reject=451 4.1.8 Doma in of sender address root at AW0001.meadwestvaco.com
> does not resolve S
>
> Now I _know_ this is a laformed header, but, (at least right now), I'd
> like for sendmail to just take the mail, without being so picky about it.
> Is there a rule I can tweak to accomplish this?

Not really a FreeBSD question ;)

Having said that, you probably need to look at adding:

  FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains

In your sendmail config...

-Kp