[thelist] Basic sendmail question
Asif Suria
asifsuria at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 24 22:49:08 CST 2006
I wonder if the recent sendmail vulnerability has
anything to do with it.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-081A.html
Asif
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--- Brent Eades <beades at almonte.com> wrote:
> Hope this isn't too far off topic... anyway, I run a
> web server from
> home, using my DSL account to connect to the
> Internet.
>
> Recently I had to build a new server after my old
> (ancient) one finally
> packed it in. I have everything working fine, except
> for one small
> detail: my CGI scripts that rely on sendmail have
> stopped sending mail.
> Or more to the point, my ISP has stopped accepting
> the mail. When I
> check /var/log/maillog after running one of these
> scripts, I see:
>
> [snip] relay=to1.bellnexxia.net [snip] DSN: Service
> unavailable
>
> ... where 'to1.bellnexxia.net' is my ISP's SMTP
> server. (In other words,
> I need to use my ISP's SMTP server to relay the mail
> sent by the
> scripts.) If my hazy memory serves me, the 'Service
> unavailable' message
> means my ISP is refusing the mail.
>
> I recall having to jump through some hoops to get
> sendmail working when
> I first set this stuff up years ago, but I forget
> the details. I have
> changed the SMART_HOST setting in my sendmail config
> to my ISP's SMTP
> server, and sendmail is successfully connecting. But
> I can't remember
> what else I have to configure to convince the server
> to accept the mail.
>
> For reference, my ISP is sympatico.ca, and my Linux
> distro is Fedora
> Core 4. My web server connects to my ISP through a
> router. Any and all
> help much appreciated.
>
> --
> Brent Eades
> Almonte, Ontario
> http://almonte.com
>
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