Re: [suse-security] Sendmail / SuSEfirewall2 Woes

[engelbert.gruber@xxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Sturgis, Grant wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> We are configuring a sendmail relay server and are having some problems.
> Sendmail was all setup and working nicely, until I came along to install
> and configure SuSEfirewall2.  Even with the firewall shutdown, sendmail
> fails to respond to remote connections.  Actually, the banner appears,
> but sendmail won't respond to a helo or any other SMTP commands.  When
> attempted locally, this works fine.  Again, this is with the firewall
> shutdown (SuSEfirewall2 stop).  The same symptoms occur with the
> firewall loaded.

use SuSEfirewall2 test to deactivate the firewall rules.
afair this means everything passes through but logging is on
for testing.
and for testing only it is wide open.

cheers
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