Remote SMTP not working after upgrade to MS 4.79.11-1

[Roger Ide]

look in the logs....mailscanner/etc doesn't do smtp thats purely up to
Sendmail. 

Martin 
 
You're right. Still, sendmail behaves differently (for me) when MailScanner
is running, and so I'm trying to imagine what might be causing that
difference, that only appeared after running the update. It has occurred to
me that waiting too long between versions can be a bad thing.

Thanks.

Roger


On 7 June 2010 16:00, Roger Ide <rogeride at rogeride.com> wrote:


	We can no longer remotely send email from external clients such as
Outlook
	via sendmail with MailScanner running, since an upgrade from MS
4.63.x to MS
	4.79.11-1, also involving an upgrade to ClamAv 0.96.1, and
SpamAssassin
	3.3.0. This despite the fact that each user that is being denied
access is
	properly listed in /etc/relay-domains, and the /etc/mail/shadow, and
	/etc/mail/passwd files. Saslauthd in running and testsaslauthd shows
a
	Success with a properly authorized user/password combination.
	
	We're running EnsimPro Ensim Pro 10.3.0-fc.6.11, and everything was
fine
	before the upgrade. We have just the one website that we are
hosting.
	Sendmail, MailScanner and the rest are all located at the root level
and
	service the this one website which is 'site1'. The aforementioned
	/etc/mail/shadow and passwd files are on at
/home/virtual/site1/fst/etc.
	
	With MailScanner off, sendmail has no trouble finding these files on
its
	own, and granting access to listed users.
	
	With MailScanner running, sendmail does not seem to know where to
look for
	those files. The basic message I get is 'user information cannot be
found'
	(my paraphrase).
	
	Experimentally, I copied the user data from
	/home/virtual/site1/fst/etc/shadow into /etc/shadow, and did the
same with
	the passwd file user data.
	
	PRESTO! We are back to running normally. Except it's a fudge and the
	question still needs answer.
	
	Presumably the problem lies with the sendmail instances run by
MailScanner
	(or ClamAv or SpamAssassin), such that they no longer know where
they
	belong. Could this be a user/group issue, or the possibility that
there is a
	configuration that I have overlooked?
	
	In order to deal with the multiple-recipient emails that we get, I
followed
	the suggestion at sendmail.org to set up a sendmail-in.cf (via a
	sendmail-in.mc). This has been in place for over two years, so I
haven't
	considered it to be in the investigation stream.
	
	Additionally, it should be said that MailScanner upgrades have to be
applied
	outside the Ensim Pro environment since it was obsolecing even as we
	acquired it on our 'new' server in 2007. I upgraded successfully to
4.63.x
	at that time, but I may have had to make an adjustment at the time
to avoid
	this very problem. I don't remember that I had this problem, and I
haven't
	run across anything that would remind me of it.
	
	Thank you if you have read this far. If any of this rings a bell, or
if
	there is better information that I can provide, I will be happy to
do so.
	
	Roger Ide
	
	
	
	
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