Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
Hi,
There is one thing SuSE neglected to mention ( at least in the "xxxx-update" mail sent to root on install ) about sendmail in SuSE Linux 7.0.
It's that sendmail IS linked to the wrappers ( which it seems to not have been in earlier versions ).
When I added "ALL:ALL" in /etc/hosts.deny, I suddenly stopped receiving mail ( humourous enough, I didn't notice at once ) and to fix it, I had to add "sendmail: ALL" in /etc/hosts.allow.
The response from sendmail is humorous as well... It accepts a connection, it also accepts "helo machine.domain.org" but it doesn't accept "mail from user@domain.org"...
duh! :-)
yes. I was not amused, fetchmail got the mail and sendmail said "f*** off". but fetchmail deleted the messages on the server. I didn't trust the update, so I watched it *once* happen, found out how to telnet to port 25 for testing. "505 Access denied" turned into a nightmare. The "old" sendmail worked perfect. SuSE support was no great help, hinted me to an updated version of sendmail that didn't work either and pointed to the commercial support. ;-( A hint to the tcp wrapper library thing would have saved a lot of time. I got the feeling they just look up and down the SDB and post the most promising articles. Btw: same is true for NFS (think the user space deamon). I am still a bit cross about that. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq