sendmail problem

[Ron Watson]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Ron ,
>
>
>>>
>> Have you tried setting your hostname, e.g. 'hostname 
>> ini-wf.indystar.com' (as root...)  ? I'm about to
>> try and configure my sendmail to actually work for mail, but i 
>> haven't really played with it much yet. I do notice, though,
>> that even though I've never touched the factory defaults, it at least 
>> got the hostname right, even though all I've really done
>> that should have affected it was to set the hostname.
>
>
>  One other thing  I've noticed is that it apparently defaults to only
>> listening on the localhost interface (127.0.0.1) and not the network 
>> interface, so I'll need to twiddle with that right off. 
>
> From my sendmail.mc :
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The above line is from my sendmail.mc and i guess it gives you a
> hint on why sendmail defaults to listen to localhost .
>
> As to the original question on this thread . The relative lines
> from my sendmail.mc are shown below .
>
>
> MASQUERADE_AS(`cha.forthnet.gr')dnl
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is the domain that sendmail should masquerade to .
>
> FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
> FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl
>
> FEATURE(`local_no_masquerade')dnl
>
> This FEATURE just says that if the mail is to be delivered localy then 
> don't
> masquerade .
> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`Magellan.Andromeda.Galaxy.net')dnl
>                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is the original Domain Name
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>   Kostas
>
Thanks for the info about default listening. As for not adressing the 
original question,
I was just throwing that out in response to the original poster 
mentioning that sendmail
still thought it was localhost, e.g.
>
> Thanks. I tried your suggestion, adding localhost and 
> localhost.localdomain into local-host-names, restarted sendmail and 
> neither sendmail -bt -d0 < /dev/null nor mail to 
> helocheck at cbl.abuseat.org showed any change. Both still say sendmail's 
> ID is localhost.localdomain.
>
and by combining that with what you mentioned here about 
no_masquerade_local being enabled,
perhaps he simply needs to get out of localhost and then all the 
masquerade stuff will start to
take effect. It's been my experience that many of the older, legacy Unix 
programs are aware
that 127.0.0.1 is not a "normal" address, and modify their behavior 
accordingly. Just trying to get
to the actual problem, rather than just fix symptoms. I was thinking 
that maybe setting his
hostname correctly may be all he needs. Like I said, I haven't changed 
the sendmail config on my
system, but at least it knows who it is...
> [root at shadow:/root]#telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 shadow.compukitty.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Wed, 10 May 
> 2006 02:14:38 -0400
> QUIT
> 221 2.0.0 shadow.compukitty.com closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> [root at shadow:/root]#



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