[Fedora] Mysterious problem with sendmail

[Paul Howarth]

Bob Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 13:33 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>> Bob Taylor wrote:
>>> Mail is now working again with
>>> the same configuration files except mail from tcpwrappers seems to be
>>> rejected. Don't know *why*
>>>   
>>     If you're seeing tcpwrappers rejection, it's because of 
>> /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow configurations.  Any other 
>> rejections or access denied within sendmail would be because of 
>> /etc/mail/access.  Check your rules carefully.
> 
> Do you see any problem with my /etc/mail/access file?
> 
> localhost.localdomain		RELAY
> localhost			RELAY
> 127.0.0.1			RELAY
> 192.168.0.1			RELAY
> ann					RELAY
> ann.qtpi.local		RELAY
> 
> (I added the last three lines *after* mail failed working!)
> 
> I think I have fixed my tcwrapper problem by adding SENDMAIL: ALL
> to /etc/hosts.allow. Except for this, I don't know *what* happened to a
> working mail system. I was able to send and receive email to and from my
> ISP as well as receive mail from root (logwatch) and MAILER-DAEMON. I
> just don't know why!!

Can you post the mail log entries you have for the rejected mail? That 
would give a clue about why the mail was rejected.

Paul.