Sendmail Fails Locally

[Janina Sajka]

I've gotten myself into a pickle of sorts through recent upgrades and
reformats. I have a seemingly well functioning Redhat Fisher distro
upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 except for local sendmail. Somehow, while using
the Bastille hardening scripts to shore up security (yes, I know, I should
learn to do that by hand), I've managed to make it impossible to recieve
mail locally.

I'm running sendmail 8.11.2 and I'm able to send outbound just fine. While
I'm on our office 192.168.X.X ip, I'm unable to sned out to anyone with
our domain name. While I'm up over ppp, I can send anywhere. But never do
I recieve. Fetchmail says it's flushing messages off the server, byut my
root mailbox is full of mails that say "sendmail port denial notification
localhost." And, indeed, when I look at /var/log/maillog, there are
repeating sequences that indicate more or less the same thing allbeit more
verbosely.

What port did I neglect to open while doing the Bastille thing? I have 25,
53, 110. I think those are the relevant ones?. Are there more that should
be open? Or am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks in advance--as always.

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina at afb.net
(202) 408-8175
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