Acepting lnown "bad" mail?

stan stanb at panix.com
Wed Sep 6 04:28:03 PDT 2006


On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:11:12PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> --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...
> 
Thanks, I'll give that a try.

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