Yarrow Release Notes - sendmail mc->cf

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, bishop wrote:

> <http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/>
> 
> Folks,
> 
> In the release notes, we read:
> 
> > #
> > 
> > By default, the Sendmail mail transport agent (MTA) does not accept network connections from any host other than the local computer. If you want to configure Sendmail as a server for other clients, you must edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change the DAEMON_OPTIONS line to also listen on network devices (or comment out this option entirely using the dnl comment delimiter). You must then regenerate /etc/mail/sendmail.cf by running the following command (as root):
> > 
> > make -C /etc/mail
> > 
> > Note that you must have the sendmail-cf package installed for this to work.
> 
> I'm used to sendmail doing it for me on a 'service sendmail reload', and 
> I liked that it did the 'make' as required.  Is this no longer expected 
> to work as it did for RHL9 (and possibly others)?

It still works.

later,
chris