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Old 03-07-2005, 05:59 PM   #1
nenad
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Sendmail: did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN


Hi,

I am experiencing a little trouble setting up sendmail (8.12.11) on Fedora Core 2. A have a simple sendmail.mc:

divert(-1)
dnl This is the sendmail macro config file. If you make changes to this file,
dnl you need the sendmail-cf rpm installed and then have to generate a
dnl new /etc/sendmail.cf by running the following command:
dnl
dnl m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
dnl
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')
VERSIONID(`Linux Fedora Core 2 setup')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')
undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl
undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl
dnl
dnl
dnl defines
dnl
dnl
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS',`A p')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl
dnl
define(`SMART_HOST',`myisps.smtpserver.com')
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl
dnl
dnl
dnl FEATURES
dnl
dnl
FEATURE(smrsh)dnl
FEATURE(virtusertable)dnl
FEATURE(access_db, `hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access')dnl
FEATURE(redirect)dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl
dnl NV - revisit for real time blackhole
dnl FEATURE(`rbl')dnl
dnl
dnl We strongly recommend to comment this one out if you want to protect
dnl yourself from spam. However, the laptop and users on computers that do
dnl not have 24x7 DNS do need this.
dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl
dnl
dnl
dnl
dnl MAILERS
dnl
dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl

The problem I am experiencing is in *sending* mail from a win2K (sp4) box. I receive mail properly. So, when I try to send mail (using Netscape mail v7.2), I get prompted for a password. I supply the same username/password that I can ssh into the linux box with. That fails to get authenticated, so after I cancel, I get this in /var/log/maillog:

<hostname> [192.168.2.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

Now the funny thing is that I can send mail with Outlook express -- no problem.. I am guessing this has something to do with the authentication that sendmail uses. I sifted through sendmail configuration links on google, but couldn't figure it out. Could this be a FEATURE from my sendmail.mc that's missing or wrong?

Also potentially significant is that I have based my sendmail.mc (and .cf of course, that I got by running m4) on a RedHat 7.3 version that I rebuilt with Fedora Core 2.

I'm a bit stuck with this and will greatly appreciate any help..

Thanks,
Nenad
 
Old 03-31-2005, 01:12 PM   #2
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you're probably running the wrong ttype of auth encryption with netscape
 
  


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