[svlug] Problems with mailserver spamming itself due to loop

[Mark]

Please see below...


 


> even better if you had a sendmail.m4 file ( just need about 
> 10 lines ) 
> that you used to create sendmail.cf
> 	- sendmail.cf is typically broken out of the box

I'm not sure which one was used....

> 
> a simple tests:
>   root#  mail -v -s "testing localhost" root < /dev/null
> 	- what does it say

Here is the result :
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Null message body; hope that's ok
root... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
220 smtp2.mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:44:38 -0700
>>> EHLO smtp2.mydomain.com
250-smtp2.mydomain.com Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<root at smtp2.mydomain.com> SIZE=37 AUTH=root at smtp2.mydomain.com
250 2.1.0 <root at smtp2.mydomain.com>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<root at smtp2.mydomain.com>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <root at smtp2.mydomain.com>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 2.0.0 m52MicY0020810 Message accepted for delivery
root... Sent (m52MicY0020810 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 smtp2.mydomain.com closing connection