RE: [cobalt-users] RE: RaQ3i - Sendmail 8.9.3 configuration issues (was Sendmail upgrade to 8.12.8 issues?)

[sm <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,
At 10:44 27-03-2003 -0700, Dave Reid wrote:
>I had replied in a previous message that "POP before SMTP" is installed

Sorry, I missed that post.

>but has never worked properly, The first time I turned the feature on
>and tried to access my email, portsentry locked me out (I did not have a
>static IP at the time to add to the hosts.allow file). After I was able
>to add my new static IP to the hosts.allow file I tried once again to
>get "pop before smtp" again. I have never been able to get it working, I
>have tried every purmutation of setting available to me in Outlook XP
>and outlook express, all to no avail, I just get an error saying I can't
>be authenticated.

IIRC, there is a bug in the UI.  Enable "POP before SMTP", disable it, then
enable it again (feel free to correct me if I am wrong about that).  I
guess that portsentry did not like the repeated connections. :)

You don't need a hosts.allow entry for SMTP.  "POP before SMTP" is designed
to work with dynamic IPs.  If you or your users have static IPs, then add
them to the relay list.

>I finally found the master .mc file that was used to create the
>sendmail.cf file
>(/usr/lib/sendmail-cf/redhat.mc - I run a RaQ3) I will include it below.
>I would sure appreciate it if someone could look it over and tell me
>what I need to add to solve these issues, I think one line I need to add
>is;
>
>FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')

You do not need this feature.

Email me off-list if you want me to look into your RaQ3i.  I will require
shell (SSH) access.

Regards,
-sm