topic sendmail access file in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail access file

Fred Martin_1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:10:12 GMT

I set up a few entries in the sendmail access file to reject specific doamins, such as:

spamsource.com 553 No soliciting.

When sendmail rejects the email, the following is logged in the mail.log:

h7BGpET06466: --> 553 5.0.0 No soliciting. (held)

Does anyone know what "held" means? Not all the mail.log entries have "held" following the reject message.

Re: sendmail access file

someone_4 — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:27:05 GMT

Hi

what if you try

spamsource.com 550 No soliciting
or

spamsource.com 553 No soliciting

without the period at the end.

Richard

Re: sendmail access file

Fred Martin_1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:39:06 GMT

All my entries are the same; I have about 30 sites that get the "No soliciting." message. As I said, some do not produce the "held" message.

Re: sendmail access file

Brian Bergstrand — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:44:20 GMT

Well, if the spammers return address is invalid (like most spam), then the outgoing bounce will be held in your mail queue for another send try later (just like any other mail). It can take up to four days, depending on your configuration, for the send to actually give up.

This would be my guess as to what "held" means in this context.

HTH.

Re: sendmail access file

Fred Martin_1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:56:02 GMT

Are you certain? The 553 message is delivered directly to the host that's logged in (smtp), not via an email.

Re: sendmail access file

Brian Bergstrand — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:16:09 GMT

Never mind. A bounce message is sent, but that is sent from the mailer initiating the connection to your mailer, not by your mailer. Sorry, I didn't pay close enough attention to your first message.

Although, I did find this in a Google search and it looks to be similar to what you are seeing, so maybe I was close.

http://www.cm.nu/~shane/lists/comp.mail.sendmail/2000-06/1933.html
===========================
StarOffice, does not offer the pop-up, and the mail log using
LogLevel=15 indicates a "(held)" after the message, and no response is
returned to the sender. The same is true when the forbidden attachments
are sent from the command line, e.g.:
=============================

(This was from a 554 response.)

Re: sendmail access file

Fred Martin_1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:29:53 GMT

Well, if that applies to my situation it just means the logged-in host isn't seeing my message.

It just attemps to send the spam and when my server rejects it, the host logs off and ignores the reason. Like they care anyway :)