> On Oct 2, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Christian Göttsche <cgzo...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am getting several warning a day of the form
>
> postfix/smtpd[6969]: warning: hostname domain does not resolve to address
> ip
> postfix/smtpd[10614]: warning: hostname domain does not resolve to
> address ip: Name or service not known
>
> My question is, why are these logged with syslog priority warning/4?
Ewhn I asked almost this exact question in August, I got the following from
Wietse:
@lbutlr:
> Are logs like the following really worthy of a warning log level?
Yes, because they can result in an irreversible action: if Postfix
replies with 5XX then the client will not retry the delivery attempt.
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