Tested OK. Enable unqualified rdns MTA send mail to local specific user. (blah blah reasons...) In "/etc/mail" folder, (ex: fedora) First, enable 'require_rdns.m4' in sendmail.mc configuration with second default REJECT option. HACK(`require_rdns',`REJECT')dnl Watch out the ( ` back quote ) and ( ' single quote) differences, this enable sendmail with rdns check. Read the instruction in rdns.m4, for more detail from author. Then enable specific user and IP for whitelists, no rDNS for them in access map. rdns:fooUserName OK rdns:11.22.33.44 OK rdns:noFooMail REJECT 'OK' means no rdns challenage in mail transfering, 'REJECT' means valid check is necessary. Final steps are rebuild access map and m4 file of sendmail. makemap hash access.db < access and m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf service sendmail restart Congratulations!! rDNS with whitelist check enabled, incoming mails to 'noFooMa...