mailscanner breaks etrn

[Julian Field]

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It's very simple. ETRN extracts mail from the incoming queue, before  
MailScanner has had a chance to process it. So it is an ideal route  
for your users to get viruses and spam.
So I have to disable ETRN.

On 11 Jan 2006, at 23:59, Dan Hollis wrote:

> If I run sendmail by itself (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail), etrn works:
>
> Connected to x.com (x.x.x.x).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 x.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:33:39  
> -0800
> ehlo customer.com
> 250-x.com Hello customer.com [y.y.y.y], pleased to meet you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
> ETRN customer.com
> 250 2.0.0 Queuing for node customer.com started
>
> If I run mailscanner (/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner), etrn is disabled:
>
> Connected to x.com (x.x.x.x).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 x.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:31:58  
> -0800
> ehlo customer.com
> 250-x.com Hello customer.com [y.y.y.u], pleased to meet you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
> ETRN customer.com
> 502 5.7.0 Sorry, we do not allow this operation
>
> I have spent hours trying to figure out why mailscanner disables  
> etrn, but failed. Anyone know what's up with this?
>
> -Dan
>
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