Hello- And the plot thickens as well.. Evidently the email denied by SELinux eventually gets out on the network anyway through sendmail. The denial only defers the mail, so around ten minutes later the mail is sent again- successfully however, due to sendmail making it's own request. Here are the logs, grepping for the same set of timestamps and mail id's- /var/log/messages Sep 27 12:43:34 apache02 kernel: audit(1127839414.325:10): avc: denied { name_connect } for pid=3948 comm="sendmail" dest=25 scontext=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:smtp_port_t tclass=tcp_socket Sep 27 12:43:34 apache02 kernel: audit(1127839414.326:11): avc: denied { name_connect } for pid=3948 comm="sendmail" dest=25 scontext=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:smtp_port_t tclass=tcp_socket /var/log/maillog Sep 27 12:43:34 apache02 sendmail[3948]: j8RGhYfY003948: from=apache, size=505, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200509271643.j8RGhYfY003948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=apache@localhost Sep 27 12:43:34 apache02 sendmail[3948]: j8RGhYfY003948: to=aastaneh@xxxxxxxxx, ctladdr=apache (48/48), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30505, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Permission denied Sep 27 12:52:04 apache02 sendmail[3953]: j8RGq3n2003953: from=<apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=702, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200509271643.j8RGhYfY003948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] Sep 27 12:52:04 apache02 sm-msp-queue[3952]: j8RGhYfY003948: to=aastaneh@xxxxxxxxx, ctladdr=apache (48/48), delay=00:08:30, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=120505, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (j8RGq3n2003953 Message accepted for delivery) -Amin Astaneh -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list