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Re: Trouble using "sendmail" w/ inetd for incoming mail

On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Brian Fisk wrote:

...
> Now I am having a problem sending mail to that machine from other zmailer
> Linux machines running 2.99.27.  The Sparc is using TCP wrappers and
> firing up the zmailer "sendmail -bs" when an incoming connection is
> received from a valid host.  The machine receives mail without a problem
> when I telnet to port 25 (and do an SMTP transaction) or if the
> sending machine is running "real" sendmail, but the connection is closed
> sometime in the middle of a transaction with the zmailer smtp client. 


I just sent some stuff from a Linux zmailer-2.99.27 box to a newly 
compiled zmailer-2.99.31 on a SUN/Solaris 2.5, stock machine with no 
warppers. Seems to work fine:

# cat smtpserver
00000#  started server pid 17973 at Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:54:09 +0100
17987#  connection from UNKNOWN@laddie.phys.ualberta.ca (port 1463)
17987w  220 srv ZMailer Server 2.99.31 #1 ESMTP+IDENT ready at Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:01:34 +0100
17987#  remote from [129.128.7.239]
17987r  EHLO laddie.phys.ualberta.ca
17987w  250-srv Hello laddie.phys.ualberta.ca
17987w  250-SIZE 0
17987w  250-8BITMIME
17987w  250-PIPELINING
17987w  250-CHUNKING
17987w  250-EXPN
17987w  250-VRFY
17987w  250-XDSN
17987w  250-X-RCPTLIMIT 10000
17987w  250-X-TURNME
17987w  250-ETRN
17987w  250 HELP
17987r  MAIL From:<jmack@Phys.UAlberta.Ca> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=370
17987w  250 Ok
17987r  RCPT To:<jmack@srv.Phys.UAlberta.Ca>
17987w  250 Ok; can accomodate 370 byte message
17987r  DATA
17987w  354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
17987w  250 Roger
17987#  7666: 450 bytes
17987r  QUIT
17987w  221 srv Out

I suppose there's more of a finger to point at the TCP wrapper...
but perhaps there might also be a problem at the sending side.

Cheers,
--
James S. MacKinnon           Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Team Physics                 Voice : (403) 492-8226
University of Alberta        email : Jim.MacKinnon@Phys.UAlberta.CA
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