Re: RH7.1 sendmail fails after fetchmail

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Wed, 16 May 2001 20:12:34 +0800 Robin Atwood
<robin atwood attglobal net> spake unto us:

> I have just upgraded from 6.2 to 7.1 (which was a bloody disaster, it's
> taken 
> me 4 nights to fix my system). I normally run fetchmail to pickup email
> from 
> the POP server, which then runs sendmail to distribute it. Now after 
> fetchmail finishes, sendmail issues the following messages and the mail
> goes 
> into the void:
> 
> May 16 19:49:51 opal sendmail[14564]: f4GBnoK14564: tcpwrappers 
> (localhost.localdomain, 127.0.0.1) rejection
> May 16 19:49:58 opal sendmail[14564]: NOQUEUE: 
> IDENT:root localhost localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue 
> MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to Daemon0
> 
> The sendmail.cf is vanilla at the moment except I commented out the 
> daemon-port statement as recommended in the release notes. I searched
> but 
> cannot turn up any hits on the problem, so any ideas?
> TIA

I got this the other day when I inadvertently set a a line in hosts.deny
for ALL : ALL and didn't have an escape in hosts.allow to counter it.

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