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I just upgraded to sendmail-8.13.3-1.1. It's logging the syslog message "Bad IPLOCALPORT value" several times per minute. I don't know if this is relevant: I'm using my own cf file, but I did rebuild it from mc after the upgrade. I've also got current versions of most other FC Devel packages.
It may be relevant that I have two versions of openssl installed -- I installed 0.9.7e-3 on top of 0.9.7a-46, because there are some things that depend on the old libraries. Perhaps this is the problem.
The problem here, it turns, out is that the getnameinfo function provided in libbind in bind-9.3.1rc1-3 doesn't obey the NI_NUMERICSERV flag. It's returning a port name instead of a port number to sendmail, and sendmail feeds this into SASL, which complains about it because it's expecting a port number. Bind-9.3.0- 2 doesn't have this problem, presumably because it doesn't provide getnameinfo -- it relies on libc to provide it, and the version in libc obeys NI_NUMERICSERV.
This problem occurs because the wrong include path has been used to compile libbind using code. /usr/include/netdb.h defines: # define NI_NUMERICSERV 2 while /usr/include/bind/netdb.h defines: #define NI_NUMERICSERV 0x00000008 To use libbind, you must either specify -I/usr/include/bind in your compile command, or change your #include directives for libbind headers (eg. netdb.h) to: #include <bind/netdb.h> sendmail must be recompiled with these include path changes in order to continue using libbind.
This bug is now fixed with sendmail-8.13.3-1.2, to be released in FC4/Rawhide shortly.
Unfortunately, this change causes sendmail 8.13.3-1.2 to crash on start-up for me on x86_64, running something as simple as: sendmail oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br It works fine on an i686 box. Reverting to 8.13.3-1.1 restores a functional sendmail.
Fixed in RPM sendmail-8.13.3-2. This version is using libresolv from glibc again instead of the libbind. Support for libbind was dropped, but option NAMED_BIND is still active for DNSMAPs using libresolv. Please test this new version.