[ale] beeping sendmail.cf [was: beeping procmail]

[David S. Jackson]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:56:14PM -0400 David S. Jackson <deepbsd at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> Say, on my Slack 9 box, I've got procmail going, and I get beeps when
> procmail is, I think, rejecting mail due to bad sender domains.  Not
> exactly sure what the error is or what's generating it.  But the
> beeps are driving me nuts.  I normally just have to leave the room
> when I download mail, but that's not a good long-term solution to the
> problem!  

Okay, bad form to reply to myself, but here's what I've found so far:

Watching the maillog during fetching mail, the beeps happen just
before a "reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address yumi at gaemat.com
does not resolve" appears.  This appears to be generated from the
"ruleset=check_mail" function in sendmail.cf.  The rule in
"check_mail" that appears to be getting tripped is:

R<TEMP> $*              $#error $@ 4.1.8 $: "451 Domain of sender
address " $&f " does not resolve"

Not being a sendmail guru, where should I look next?  What does this
line in sendmail.cf actually mean?

TIA!


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