[Greylist-users] My incoming mail is relay, not smtp

[Evan Harris]

The value of the {mail_mailer} is whatever the name of the mailer that
sendmail says is being used for delivery (as defined in your sendmail.cf).
Normally, this is smtp or esmtp.

My guess is that because you have a smarthost defined, sendmail is picking
the relay mailer because it would normally "relay" all mail to the
smarthost, and not because it thinks the sending mail host is a relay.

The change you made would be required for anyone who isn't using the
standard smtp or esmtp mailers (or isn't using the standard names for those
mailers).  It should not cause any problems for you.

Evan


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Tim Freeman wrote:

>
> I'm running one computer that receives mail from arbitrary machines on
> the internet via SMTP and sends outgoing mail through a smart host.  Apparently
> in my configuration, when Sendmail 8.12.9 contacts the milter, the value of
> "{mail_mailer}" is "relay" instead of "smtp".  This causes
> relaydelay.pl version 0.04 to never tempfail anything.  The obvious "fix" was to
> hack relaydelay:
>
> @@ -614,7 +613,10 @@
>    #   that and other "local looking" from addresses as using the local mailer,
>    #   even though they are coming from off-site.  So we have to exclude the
>    #   "local" mailer from the checks since it lies.
> -  if (($mail_mailer !~ /smtp\Z/i) and ($mail_mailer !~ /\Alocal\Z/i)) {
> +  # Sendmail says I'm doing relaying, even when it's really just
> +  # smtp delivery.  Don't know why.  Tim Freeman 20 Nov 2003.
> +  #if (($mail_mailer !~ /smtp\Z/i) and ($mail_mailer !~ /\Alocal\Z/i)) {
> +  if (($mail_mailer !~ /relay\Z/i) and ($mail_mailer !~ /\Alocal\Z/i)) {
>      # we aren't using an smtp-like mailer, so bypass checks
>      print "  Mail delivery is not using an smtp-like mailer.  Skipping checks.\n" if ($verbose);
>      reverse_track($dbh, $mail_from, $rcpt_to) if ($reverse_mail_tracking and $rcpt_mailer !~ /\Alocal\Z/i);
>
> but this change must be bad because surely someone put the test for smtp
> in there for a reason, and this change will break relaydelay for them.
>
> Sendmail is doing a fine job of delivering mail even though it thinks
> everything is a relay, and with the above hack relaydelay.pl seems to
> be doing a fine job of greylisting.  I've been running it for about an
> hour so I can't be sure yet.
>
> Here's my sendmail.mc with the comments ripped out:
>
> define(`_USE_ETC_MAIL_')dnl
> include(`/usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
> VERSIONID(`$Id: sendmail.mc, v 8.12.9-5 2003-07-01 23:39:44 cowboy Exp $')
> OSTYPE(`debian')dnl
> DOMAIN(`debian-mta')dnl
> LOCAL_CONFIG
> LOCAL_CONFIG
> define(`confSAFE_FILE_ENV',             `')dnl
> FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl
> FEATURE(`nocanonify')dnl
> FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl
> FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
> MASQUERADE_AS(`fungible.com')dnl
> dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`fungible.com')dnl
> define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.pacbell.net.')dnl
> define(`MILTER',1)dnl
> define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `40')dnl
> MAILER(local)dnl
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`relaydelay', `S=local:/var/run/relaydelay.sock, T=S:1m;R:2m;E:3m')dnl
>
> Does anyone know:
>
> 1. Why relaydelay doesn't want to tempfail when the incoming mail is
>    from a relay?
> 2. Why sendmail thinks all my incoming email is from relays when it isn't?
> --
> Tim Freeman                                                  tim at fungible.com
> GPG public key fingerprint ECDF 46F8 3B80 BB9E 575D  7180 76DF FE00 34B1 5C78
> Your levity is good.  It relieves tension and fear of death.  -- Terminator 3
>
>