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

["Dave Reid" <daver1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
|> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sm
|> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 6:27 AM
|> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] RE: RaQ3i - Sendmail 8.9.3 
|> configuration issues (was Sendmail upgrade to 8.12.8 issues?)
|> 
|> 
|> 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 realize I don't need it for smtp to work, it is just that I don't ever
want to get locked out of my own server, I do not do this for anyone
else, only for our IP's so that we never get locked out, there are all
kinds of things that can get you accidentaly locked out when you run
portsentry as I have it set on a hair trigger, I do get more false
alarms than I would like, but after some close calls with hackers I feel
it is worth the hassle. I will try what you suggest for getting pop
before smtp to work, but are you suggesting this will solve my issue of
my users getting "Relaying Denied" errors when sending email to a domain
not hosted on our server? The reason I ask is that with my email account
with my ISP, I don't have to do pop B4 SMTP to send email, and I have
never had a problem sending to even the most obscure email addresses.

Thanx for the help BTW.
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|> 
|> >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
|> 
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