Re: Trouble 'relaying' mail to sendmail server on Fedora Core system

From: Chris (chriswinne_at_my-deja.com)
Date: 01/18/04 

Date: 18 Jan 2004 12:30:28 -0800

> mike@nuban.com (Mike Sweany) writes:
> > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky ha scritto:
> >
> > > In the past, I had no problem 'relaying' mail from a mozilla MTA on my
> > > windoze machine to my RH8 Linux machine running sendmail. I only
> > > needed to uncomment the line:
> > > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
> > > I could then relay mail using authentication of username/password for
> > > any valid unix account on the server.
>
> > > I have now upgraded the mail server to Fedora Core 1 running:
> > > sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1
> > > However, I can no longer relay mail from my windoze machine. Looking
> > > in my /var/mail/maillog, I get the following errors:
>
> > > Dec 9 01:19:31 mylinuxserver sendmail[3058]: hB96HoIb003038:
> mywindoze.client [192.168.1.143]: possible SMTP attack: command=AUTH, count=6
> > > Dec 9 01:22:45 mylinuxserver sendmail[3058]: hB96HoIb003058:
> > mywindoze.client [192.168.1.143] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during
> > connection to MTA
> >
>
> > > Any thoughts on what might have changed?
> > > What do I need to do to fix this?
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jeff
> >
> > Jeff,
> >
> > Didi you ever get this working? I have spent many hours trying to
> > accomplish this exact thing, but with no solution yet...
> >
> > Mike
>
> No luck so far... I am surprised that I never heard any responses back
> since I would have thought that either more people are effected or I
> am missing something very trivial.

I had the basically the same problem after "upgrading" to
sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1 on fedora, with the same error while attempting
to sendmail through mozilla, though my "usual" mail worked fine. I
messed around for awhile and can only think it was an unwanted compile
option. For now, I fixed the problem by migrating back to
sendmail-8.12.8-9.90 from redhat 9. If anyone finds a better
solution, I'ld be happy to hear it.