Thanks Dan.. That's exactly what I needed to know.
I disabled IMail's address verification and that took care of both the extra
log lines as well as the extra files being left in the spool directory.
I still don't understand why IMail was trying to do a validation to a server
IP which was not found in the header at all. If it's not in the header, how
does IMail know where to go to?
~Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:42 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] help me understand this log entry
You should disable Address Validation anyway. It's very abusive of [the
server of] anybody who is Joe-Jobed and it doesn't help fight spam anyway.
It WILL get you blacklisted, tho<g>.
Dan Barker.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John T (lists)
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] help me understand this log entry
You missed the point. The IP it is coming from could be anything,
especially
if it is spam. In fact, if it is spam, it will not be coming from a valid
IP
for the domain since it is coming through either an open relay or a bot.
It
does not matter. Just because the headers say the email is from gmail.com
does not mean it is going to come from a gmail IP address. That is spam
fighting 101.
Why are you concerned about seeing that in the log anyways? That is part
of
Antispam tests, and gee golly willikers there are likely to be errors seen
since it is a spam email. That is the whole point, it is an error a
failure
of a test.
If you really want to stop that error message, you would have to disable
Imail's AntiSpam from address validation test.
John T
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Imail_Forum-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Porter
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] help me understand this log entry
yeah... but that's precisely the point. The IP shown in the email file
header is NOT in the same domain as the server 208.x.y.z that IMail is
trying to communicate with. It's something like 69.aaa.bbbb.cccc; a
totally
different Class A. Not only that, but the emails come from a bunch of
DIFFERENT IPs. The 208.x.y.z is not shown anywhere in the email headers.
More to the point... how do I stop all this crap??? The only
consistent factor I can find is the 208.x.y.z that IMail is trying to
talk to. But since this IP isn't in the header, I see no way to tell
IMail or Declude
to
stop trying to talk to that server.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John T (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:12 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] help me understand this log entry
> It is trying to validate the from address, so it is doing a lookup
> for
an
> MX
> record and if not found an A record for the domain of the from
> address, then trying to contact a email server at that IP address to
> see if the from address exists.
>
> John T
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Imail_Forum-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Porter
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:39 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [IMail Forum] help me understand this log entry
>>
>> I'm seeing an awful lot of the following log entry in my spam
>> log... 10 to 15% of the total entries.
>> ===============
>> 11:07 00:00 SMTPD(403d01af0000e5f2) [00000276] <mydomainname.com>
>> VALIDATION: (MAIL FROM) mydomainname.com FAILED to communicate with
>> server 208.xx.yy.zzz =============== When I look at the referenced
>> SMTPD file in the spool, it doesn't
contain
>> the 208. class IP. The syslog doesn't show the 208 class IP either.
>> The
> zzz
>> varies over most of the whole Class C.
>>
>> The referenced A and D files are getting hung up in the spool
>> directory
> and
>> usually have to be deleted manually.
>>
>> The 'Received From' IP shown in the partial header of the D file is
> usually
>> in my Declude Blacklist so the email doesn't get delivered to a
mailbox.
>> Since it is pretty much junk/spam anyway that's getting deleted,
>> this
is
>> more of an annoyance than anything else and it clutters up the spam
>> log making it much larger than it should be.
>>
>> I just can't see why IMail is trying to talk to these servers.
>>
>> TIA...
>> ~Joe
>>
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