RE: Fedora core 1 sendmail problems

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I had the same problem.  Change your DAEMON options line to something like
this:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA')

It's working on our mail server.

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Homer Sapions
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 11:01 AM
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fedora core 1 sendmail problems

I have been searching the archives of this list and google and not yet found

the solution to my problem. It seems like this is a common problem with 
sendmail on new installations of Fedora, so I am frustrated by not finding a

solution that works for me. I would really appreciate any help.

I had a RedHat 7.3 installation working properly, both sending and receiving

mail with sendmail. I wanted a clean Fedora install, and since then I can 
send, but not receive mail.

I have modified /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and commented out the line
dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
then ran make -C /etc/mail and restarted sendmail with service sendmail 
restart.

I also modified /etc/mail/access and added
localhost.localdomain           RELAY
localhost                       RELAY
127.0.0.1                       RELAY
myserver.mydomain.org   RELAY
then restarted sendmail.

I have a 4 port linksys as a router/firewall between my cable modem and my 
server (and 2 other PCs). Port forwarding is enabled on the linksys to allow

http traffic, and smtp on port 25 to be forwarded to the server - which was 
all working correctly before the Fedora install.

I ran ethereal and watched connections, not that I understand much of the 
packet info. I see connection attempts, but external mail servers never 
complete a connection. The typical pattern seems to be a remote server sends

a SYN on port 25, I reply with SYN,ACK. Remote sends a SYN, I send 2 
SYN,ACKs. Remote sends a SYN, and I send 3 SYN,ACKs, and eventualy the rmote

gives up.

>From any PC inside my network I can telnet to the server on port 25 and 
issue basic smtp instructions. I can do the same locally with 127.0.0.1  
e.g.
# telnet myserver.mydomain.org 25
Trying 192.168.1.12...
Connected to myserver.mydomain.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 myserver.mydomain.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 
11:41:01 -0500
mail from: someone@xxxxxxx
250 2.1.0 someone@xxxxxxxxxx Sender ok
rcpt to: homer
250 2.1.5 homer... Recipient ok
data
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
Subject: test message
this is a test
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