[Fedora] Mysterious problem with sendmail

[Paul Howarth]

Bob Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:56 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I *think* this is enough. If not let me know.
> 
> Sep 11 04:02:38 ann sendmail[17435]: k8BB2cSJ017435: from=root,
> size=891, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200609111102.k8BB2cSJ017435 at ann.qtpi.local>, relay=root at localhost
> Sep 11 04:02:38 ann sendmail[17437]: k8BB2ciL017437: tcpwrappers
> (localhost.localdomain, 127.0.0.1) rejection

It does indeed look like a TCP Wrappers rejection. Did you make any 
other changes in hosts.allow or hosts.deny recently?

Paul.