[CentOS] TCPWrappers + Sendmail = not working

Kai Schaetzl maillists at conactive.com
Fri Apr 25 10:31:15 UTC 2008


Jeffrey Tadlock wrote on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:48:19 -0400:

> This means that sendmail is a valid option for hosts.allow or
> hosts.deny as sendmail has been compiled with support for libwrap.

Sure. The point was that the poster expected tcpwrapper to take and 
process the connection and not sendmail. But this could only happen if 
sendmail were not running as a standalone daemon and tcpd were responsible 
for port 25 via inetd. Support for libwrap just means that sendmail can 
make use of it while *it* is processing the mail. 

Kai

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