re: mail log message

>  Mail log - occasionally I see the following message in our mail log.
> Does anyone know what it means and how to fix it?
> Jun 27 16:09:37 gateway sendmail[1583]: NOQUEUE: gateway.domain.com.au
> [192.168.10.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
>
> Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS

It means that someone, in your case gateway.domain.com.au, connected to
your sendmail server and then dropped the connection without continuing
the handshaking of sending/receiving mail.

You will get this if you do a "telnet mail_server 25" get connected and
then drop the telnet session.


Gerry