reject

reject=

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The reason a message was rejected

syslog equate

When sendmail processes one of the check_ rule sets (Section 7.1), and when that rule set rejects a message, sendmail logs the following message:

 ... ruleset=  rset  , arg1=  firstarg  , reject=  reason  

Here, rset is the name of the rule set called (such as check_mail , Section 7.1.2). The workspace passed to the rule set is indicated by firstarg . The reason for the rejection is echoed with the reject= reason . For example, the following rule causes mail to fax to be rejected:

 Rfax                    $#error $@ 5.1.3 $: cannot send mail to fax 

This rule would produce a reject= syslog (3) message such as this:

 reject=553 5.1.3 <fax@ourhost>... cannot send mail to fax 

A complete description of the construction of rejection messages can be found in Chapter 7.