Re: sendmail & localhost rDNS

[Joerg Morbitzer <jomo@morbitzer.de>]

Lupe Christoph wrote:
> OK, I give up. And shut up.
> 
> Please file a bug against the sendmail package, with the information
> that sendmail allows you to enter "Connect:localhost RELAY" in
> /etc/mail/access.
> 
> And another one that "Connect:127.0.0.1 RELAY" opens up the same hole as
> "Connect:localhost RELAY".
> 
> Since I have no sendmail installation to use for testing, I can't
> reproduce the second problem. The sendmail package maintainer will
> probably require the submitter to provide details which I can't.
> 
> Thank you,
> Lupe Christoph


I just did a fresh sendmail installation on Debian Etch getting this
auto-generated new /etc/mail/access file:

titan:~# grep "^Connect:.*RELAY" /etc/mail/access
Connect:localhost               RELAY
Connect:127                             RELAY
Connect:[IPv6:::1]              RELAY
titan:~#


Regards, Joerg.