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

From: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky (kosowsky_at_consult.pretender)
Date: 01/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:09:16 GMT

chriswinne@my-deja.com (Chris) writes:
> > 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
>
> 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.

Would definitely be good to figure out what the cause is rather than
being forced to downgrade. Has anyone filed this as a bug report to
bugzilla?

Actually, though my hope was that this is just a configuration issue
rather than a "bug".