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On Wednesday 10 July 2002 10:30 pm, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:24 pm, Donnie Grimes wrote:
> > I've installed Red Hat 7.3 and cannot get my server to receive email
> > from servers outside of my domain (I can get mail from other servers
> > on my domain). I am building the linux server to replace an existing
> > Windows 2000 server. So far, from reading manuals I have
> > 1) commented out the DAEMON_OPTIONS line in the sendmail.mc file and
> > rebuilt sendmail.cf
> > 2) added sendmail:ALL to the hosts.allow file.
>
> There is no point to adding sendmail to hosts.allow because it is not
> called by inetd/xinetd. It is a standalone daemon that has its own
> network access controls, just like Apache.
>
> SSHd is standalone too, but the Red Hat build is compiled with
> tcpwrappers support, so it reads hosts.allow and hosts.deny without
> having to depend on inetd/xinetd.

Just like ssh Red Hat's sendmail is also built with tcp wrappers support.

[mfratoni@paradox sendmail-8.11.6]$ pwd
/home/mfratoni/rpmbuild/SOURCES/sendmail-8.11.6
[mfratoni@paradox sendmail-8.11.6]$ grep -i tcpwrap sendmail*
sendmail-8.11.0-redhat.patch:+define(`confENVDEF', `$(RPM_OPT_FLAGS) -Wall 
- -DXDEBUG=0 -DTCPWRAPPERS -DSASL -DNETINET6 -DUSE_VENDOR_CF_PATH=1 
- -D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS')

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- -Michael

pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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