turns out that the file /etc/mail/local-host-names was not properly configured.
damn! it is so galling when one misses the simplest things! stephen On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote: >On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:20:53PM -0500, Stephen D. Kingrea wrote: >> tcpdump tells me that incoming smtp requests are generating these >> messages at the same time as recieving mail. i am pretty sure that >> either sendmail or ipfw rules is the cause... >> >> any good tutorials out there on interpreting tcpdump output? >> >> stephen > >If you have X installed, you could use ethereal >(/usr/ports/net/ethereal)....it is a very nice graphical interface for >analyzing network traffice. I think it uses tcpdump itself?? > >Nathan > >-- >GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C >gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C >http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message