Milter-greylist

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:38 AM, abcde fgh <ebel674@...> wrote:
>
> System :
> Linux mail-2012.trezor 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Thu Apr 26 13:37:46 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> I am using : sendmail-8.14.4-8.el6.i686, milter-greylist-4.2.7-1.el6.rf.i686, MailWatch Version = 1.2.0, MailScanner Version = 4.84.5, PHP Version = 5.3.3, MySQL Version = 5.1.61
> And it generally works.
> BUT the last few days my server is relaying mail from China IP addressess.
> I have checkjed it, but all checks say that it is not a open relay (IP : 195.88.12.36, you can check too).
>
> Characteristical for mails is this from logs :
> “skipping greylist because this is the default action”
>

I think the greylist milter is the wrong place to look for this
problem.  Why is your sendmail accepting non-local addresses in the
first place?   Normally you need entries in the /etc/mail/access that
match the sender or they need to be authenticated, to accept them.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@...