RE: Fedora core 1 sendmail problems

I don't get any log entries for incoming emails, it seems like it never even gets beyond initail handshake attempts. I'm not currently using tcp-wrappers or iptables, and I don't currently have any anti-spam daemons running.

The only entries in my maillog are for local mail delivery and outbound mail. I did see one entry about certificates that may be a clue, from when I stopped and restarted the daemon.
Mar 28 13:35:33 <hostname> sendmail[16898]: STARTTLS: ServerCertFile missing

I think you're correct, Redhat / Fedora RPMS are buit with tcp-wrappers support. I already checked my hosts.allow and hosts.deny, both are empty. I've never used tcp-wrappers with sendmail support, I last used wrappers a few years ago for basic telnet, finger, ftp etc support.

In the hope of it helping, I added
sendmail:       ALL
all:            127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

to my hosts.allow. As I'm less familiar with this use of wrappers, I assumed that you menat 192.168.1.0, not .9.0. Does it matter that all: on the second line is lowercase?

From: "Cowles, Steve" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Fedora core 1 sendmail problems
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:43:15 -0600

Homer Sapions wrote:
> I did try changing it to 0.0.0.0 to see if that made any difference,
> but it didn't. Any suggestions are welcome, even if it may be somewhat
> redundant, and at this stage, I'll try anything so I appreciate the
> attempts to help anyway. I've tried all the suggestions Alexander made,
> and emailed him some more info. Once I get this fixed I'll post the
> solution in the hope that it may help anyone else who comes searching
> the archives later.
>

What does /var/log/maillog show for inbound e-mails?

BTW: If sendmail is compiled with tcpwrappers (and I think the redhat
supplied sendmail rpm is)... and you have ALL: ALL in /etc/hosts.deny, then
make sure you add:

sendmail:	ALL
all:        127.0.0.1 192.168.9.0/255.255.255.0

to /etc/hosts.allow

Steve Cowles

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