Let me forward this to the cooker list and to Philippe (the sendmail package maintainer)... David Beveridge wrote: >I think there is a problem with the implementation of tcp_wrappers in >sendmail on Mandrake. > >I got your email address from the changelog in the rpm file > >* Thu May 31 2001 Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8.11.4-1mdk > - 8.11.4 >* Thu May 31 2001 Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8.11.3-3mdk > - BuildRequires: libopenssl0-devel, tcp_wrappers-devel > Adding a BuildRequires actually doesn't change anything to the package itself. It just makes sure that when the src.rpm is rebuilt that tcp_wrappers-devel is installed on the system. Sendmail was complaining (on my system) that tcp_wrappers-devel were missing. So the package should behave the same as the version b4 it. >The problem I had is that I had to make an entry in my /etc/hosts.allow >file to prevent an access denied message after the 'mail from' command >Without the entry it looks like this:- > >[root@nass8 nass]# telnet 203.29.198.210 25 >Trying 203.29.198.210... >Connected to 203.29.198.210. >Escape character is '^]'. >220 brisbane.barclay.com.au ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.3/8.11.3; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 >14:46:57 +1000 >helo dave >250 brisbane.barclay.com.au Hello optusnet.nass.com.au [198.142.158.5], >pleased to meet you >mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >550 5.0.0 Access denied > >If an appropriate entry is made in hosts.allow, then the mailer will then >accept any mail >without the normal relay checking rules. This is very bad.!! > So the tcp_wrappers functionality will override the relaying rules. Hmmm very bad indeed. >I don't need you to solve the problem for me as I was able to install a >RedHat RPM for 8.11.0 >and it is working fine for me, however I thought that I should report this >problem to someone. > This needs to be investigated.... >I am happy to provide any information and/or assistance you think I might be >able to try. > >Regards, >Dave. >http://www.nass.com.au >Tel: +61 733976219 >Mob: +61 412976219 >Fax: +61 738476219 >http://cgi.aunic.net/cgi-bin/aunicstatus.pl?domain-name=DB417-AU&html-form=y >es&action=User+Lookup >
