Bug 2677

Summary:	relaying denied from localhost
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	jan
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	jan
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Description jan 1999-05-09 01:49:26 UTC

mailhandlers like mh (used in emacs for instance), and exmh,
use sendmail.  In the default configuration of sendmail,
/etc/sendmail.cf should read the database corresponding to
/etc/mail/access and allow relaying of mail from localhost.
/etc/sendmail.cf is not properly configured, so that the
entries in /etc/mail/access are ignored and it is impossible
to send mail using the above mailhandlers.

P.S. reverting to RedHat 5.2's /etc/sendmail.cf and
regenerating ip_allow, name_allow, relay_allow in /etc/mail
is a workaround, but it is perhaps not as secure.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-05-16 23:54:59 UTC

*** Bug 2678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

mailhandlers like mh (used in emacs for instance), and exmh,
use sendmail.  In the default configuration of sendmail,
/etc/sendmail.cf should read the database corresponding to
/etc/mail/access and allow relaying of mail from localhost.
/etc/sendmail.cf is not properly configured, so that the
entries in /etc/mail/access are ignored and it is impossible
to send mail using the above mailhandlers.

P.S. reverting to RedHat 5.2's /etc/sendmail.cf and
regenerating ip_allow, name_allow, relay_allow in /etc/mail
is a workaround, but it is perhaps not as secure.

P.P.S. I note that bug 2400 reports the same symptoms.  The
working sendmail.cf is from the rpm 8.8.7-20, the sendmail
rpm in the redhat 6.0 distribution is 8.9.3-10.

Comment 2 Jay Turner 1999-05-26 17:46:59 UTC

This issue has been forwarded to a developer for further review.

Comment 3 Cristian Gafton 1999-06-18 17:43:59 UTC

This should have been fixed in the shipping Red Hat Linux 6.0.

Please reopen if that is not the case.