sendmail issue.

[Erik Espinoza]

Make sure the sendmail-cf package is installed. Otherwise editing the
sendmail.mc won't work.

Erik

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:09:46 +0200, Alexander Dalloz
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Am Mi, den 21.07.2004 schrieb netmask um 22:29:
> 
> > I'm guessing you are saying sendmail just isn't binding your external
> > interface.. If you telnet to it from a remote box on port 25, you are getting
> > connection refused?
> >
> > Look in your sendmail.cf for:
> > # SMTP daemon options
> >
> > You may have a line that looks like:
> > O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA, Addr=127.0.0.1
> >
> > Add another line that looks like:
> > O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA, Addr=192.168.1.1
> >
> > where 192.168.1.1 is YOUR external IP.
> 
> Jonathan,
> 
> please do not follow this advise for 2 serious reasons:
> 
> 1) Don't edit the sendmail.cf file - like Craig already said - because
> that will cause you trouble in future and many things are very
> complicated to configure if you use the .cf format rather than the
> macros in the sendmail.mc file. And if you in any future want to
> transfer your setup to a different system the real trouble will start.
> 
> 2) The advise by netmask is simply wrong because it will prevent
> Sendmail from proper working. Local mailing is broken then.
> Edit the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and comment the DAEMON_OPTIONS line
> in there as it is documented in the file itself.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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