Bug 29367

Summary:	sendmail overwrites existing sendmail.cf
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Henri Schlereth <henris>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.1	CC:	rh-bugzilla
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Description Henri Schlereth 2001-02-25 11:27:19 UTC

It does not do even an rpmsave on the original sendmail.cf 
Additionally it has that horrible daemon port ip address set to
lo/127.0.0.1
This will catch many unwary people who will see sendmail running and wonder
why they get deferred/connection refused.

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-26 22:59:46 UTC

We need to reproduce this behavior locally to understand more about it; e.g.,
modify the config file, upgrade the RPM and verify that it's not making an
.rpmsave file for sendmail.cf...

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-02-26 23:55:01 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Gold release

Comment 3 Preston Brown 2001-02-27 23:27:48 UTC

changed to be %config(noreplace) in 8.11.2-12 and later.

Comment 4 Enrico Scholz 2001-05-19 00:36:20 UTC

In 8.11.3 it is still/again

%config                         /etc/sendmail.cf

Comment 5 Jonathan Kamens 2001-06-18 14:56:39 UTC

I am changing the priority of this bug to High.  I don't understand why it has
languished, unfixed, for a month, when Glen has already indicated that it is a
must-fix bug, and when it is so easy to fix.

Comment 6 Florian La Roche 2001-07-06 09:11:30 UTC

We have discussed this issue for some time internally and it is best for
customers updating from earlier releases to get a current sendmail.cf
written instead of keeping too old versions or keeping insecure versions.

I understand this is bad for mail servers.

Next round of changes can be done for sendmail 8.12 or newer to have a
good start with then working updates.

Florian La Roche

Comment 7 Enrico Scholz 2001-07-06 10:34:30 UTC

Sorry, but I am running sendmail in an workstation-setup also and the default
sendmail.cf is not working for me:

- I am behind a firewall. Therefore there must be used a SMART_HOST/null_client
whose value can not be generalized

- I have to use a GENERICS_DOMAIN which can not be generalized

- Red Hat has set FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains'). This is not acceptable
here


These are only a few issues, but at least the first two are probably occuring in
 a lot/the most of real-worl installations, especially in firms. The current
practice makes only a few people happy running the default RH configuration.

For the other ones it's annoying to have a non-working mail-server with more
relaxed security settings, which is spewing messages about non-delivered
messages aroung.

To make a clean update of older versions why don't destroy^Woverride sendmail.cf
in the %post step?

---------- [untested] ------------
%post
echo '$Z' | /usr/lib/sendmail -bt | grep -q '^> 8.11' || %{__cp}
%{_docdir}/sendmail/sendmail-rh.cf %{_sysconfdir}/sendmail.cf
----------------------------------

Comment 8 Florian La Roche 2001-07-23 12:39:41 UTC

sendmail is now changed to %config(noreplace), so that updates can be
installed without overwriting sendmail.cf.

Please bugzilla if you think other options should be changed in the
default .mc file.

Thanks,

Florian La Roche