Sendmail ignores hosts.allow

[Rob]

Doug Hardie wrote:
> On May 22, 2007, at 10:46, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
>>> > # Deny sendmail to all clients (temporary)
>>> > sendmail : all : deny

> tcp wrappers must be coded into the application.  The call which 
> actually checks the access permissions in the hosts.allow file is 
> hosts_access() (see man hosts_access).  Checking through the sendmail 

I have to disagree with that.  I run unmodified 8.13.8 on 6.2, and it DOES respect hosts.allow.  Just not in the way you might assume.

I can telnet to port 25, it allows connections from *anywhere*, and will respond to a HELO.  It's not until I give it a "mail to:" that it protests with "550 5.0.0 Access denied".  I use "FEATURE(delay_checks)" in the cf file, which may have some effect on this.

The log file shows:
May 22 14:56:47 cartman sm-mta[74026]: l4MIullh074026: tcpwrappers (unknown, 192.31.130.140) rejection

The actual options & version look like:
$ sendmail -bp -d0.1
Version 8.13.8
 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
                NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SCANF
                STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG
$ uname -rms
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386


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