Bug 86427 - local mail bounces after sendmail 8.12.8 update
Summary: local mail bounces after sendmail 8.12.8 update
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sendmail
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-21 20:21 UTC by Al Sera
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-05-05 10:35:22 UTC
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Description Al Sera 2003-03-21 20:21:19 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208
Netscape/7.02

Description of problem:
After installing the sendmail 8.12.8 update, local mail on the system is
bouncing. The bounced message indicates

(reason: 553 5.5.4 <root>... Real domain name
required for sender address)
    (expanded from: root)

Sample instance of a bounced mail from /var/log/maillog in "Additional
Information" section.

This system has always run with sendmail without customizations. Users use
Netscape for email. Local mail is used by Logwatch.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sendmail-8.12.8-1.80

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run mail, or pine(using for test)
2.To: root (from root), Subj: Test, Body: Test
3.Send mail and exit pine
4.Re-enter pine
    

Actual Results:  Bounced mail present in inbox with reason error code & message
as decribed before.

Expected Results:  Mail should have been delivered and not bounced back.

Additional info:
/var/log/maillog event sample:
Mar 21 13:50:54 mthood sendmail[11383]: h2LIosB6011383:
from=<root>, size=281, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.44.0303211350410.11382-100000>,
proto=ESMTP, relay=root@localhost
Mar 21 13:50:54 mthood sendmail[11387]: h2LIosPe011387: ruleset=check_mail,
arg1=<root>, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged),
reject=553 5.5.4 <root>... Real domain name required for
sender address
Mar 21 13:50:54 mthood sendmail[11386]: h2LIosB6011383:
to=<root>, ctladdr=<root> (0/0),
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30275, relay=[127.0.0.1]
[127.0.0.1], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
Mar 21 13:50:54 mthood sendmail[11386]: h2LIosB6011383: h2LIosB5011386: DSN:
Data format error
Mar 21 13:50:54 mthood sendmail[11387]: h2LIosPe011387:
from=<root>, size=281, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)
Mar 21 13:50:54 mthood sendmail[11387]: h2LIosPf011387: from=<>, size=2314,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200303211850.h2LIosB5011386>,
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)
Mar 21 13:50:54 mthood sendmail[11386]: h2LIosB5011386:
to=<root>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=31305, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (h2LIosPf011387 Message
accepted for delivery)
Mar 21 13:50:54 mthood sendmail[11388]: h2LIosPf011387:
to=<root>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
pri=32536, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2003-05-05 10:35:22 UTC
You might want to fix /etc/hosts for this to work again. Seems to be a local
configuration problem on your machine.

greetings,

Florian La Roche


Comment 2 Al Sera 2003-05-05 12:28:18 UTC
There was no probelm with /etc/hosts. After extensive research at the
sendmail.org web site, the only work around for the problem I could devise was
to add
FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders')dnl to sendmail.mc and then recompiling.
This is not a clean solution but will do for the time being since I do not
accept external LAN mail since sendmail is not fully configured. I have upgraded
to RH Linux 9 with this same sendmail configuration. Final goal will be to
configure sendmail to accept internal LAN mail only to keep security related
data internally.


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