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[Paul Howarth]

Shahzad Chohan wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could help me figure out an odd behaviour
> in sendmail. Basically
> I have a lot of messages from example.com with lots of reciepients
> some are to us some aren't. When clearing out the mailq for all emails
> matching example.com I get errors with can't find dns entries for
> foo.com, even though foo.com has nothing to do with us. Is there a
> reason why its trying to deliver mail to reciepients that don't belong
> to us, even though the original sender of the mail sent the mail to
> us?

Most likely the references to foo.com are in the To: or Cc: headers of 
the email, and that is what sendmail is warning you about. You can see 
the actual recipients that sendmail is trying to deliver to using "mailq".

Paul.