> -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Dekkers > Subject: Can anyone explain how this happened? (Sendmail problem) > > > I've always had the feature added for sendmail to block using > input.orbz.com. This never presented a problem. > > From Thursday onwards - I received NO mail whatsoever (yes, > unfortunately took me a while to figure out). > > The corresponding maillog indicated that address 127.0.0.1 > was rejected by input.orbz.com. > > putting a dnl in front of corresponding inputs.orbz.com line in the > sendmail.mc, making and re-starting sendmail SEEMS to have fixed the > problem. > > At least, I can send from my hotmail account to my ISP > account and receive again (I couldn't before). > > Should that local address ever be blocked though? And more > importantly, the mail destined for me is not in /var/mail/edward > OR /home/edward/Mail. I think I know the answer already but > I've lost two days worth of mail haven't > I? >
I'm surprised you have received any e-mail for the past 7 months since orbz.org (not .com) has been shutdown for that long. They purposely RBL every IP address on the internet to encourage e-mail admins to stop using orbz.org. Consider using another RBL service like ordb.org or dsbl.org. Steve Cowles -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
