[thelist] Basic sendmail question

[Asif Suria]

I wonder if the recent sendmail vulnerability has
anything to do with it.

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-081A.html

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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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