Strange sendmail behaviour?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Do you have a typo in your access.db file where you declare your discard
mailer entries?

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Gerry Doris wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:45:57 -0500
> From: Gerry Doris <gdoris at rogers.com>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Strange sendmail behaviour?
>
> I know this isn't a direct MailScanner question but I thought I'd ask if
> anyone else is seeing this sendmail behaviour.
>
> I'm seeing more and more of the following error messages.  Notice that all
> the arg IP's are the same and sendmail thinks that it is an attempt to
> relay.  I've starting getting the same behaviour if I try and send mail
> from my work account directly to my server.
>
> I can't see anything wrong with sendmail.  Is this some kind of new
> Microsoft "feature"???
>
>
> Unusual System Events
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Jan  5 23:00:53 tiger sendmail[23006]: ruleset=check_relay,
> arg1=[211.181.197.118], arg2=211.181.197.118, relay=[211.181.197.118],
> discard Jan  5 23:00:55 tiger sendmail[23006]: i0640rgL023006: discarded
>
> Jan  5 23:02:51 tiger sendmail[23159]: ruleset=check_relay,
> arg1=[218.4.201.246], arg2=218.4.201.246, relay=[218.4.201.246], discard
> Jan  5 23:02:54 tiger sendmail[23159]: i0642pgL023159: discarded
>