How to SMTP (Email) Server Fedora 6?

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Feb 12 15:26:25 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> It should almost work out of the box.  Fedora ships an intentionally
> broken sendmail configuration that won't accept mail from anything but
> the local box.  To fix it you should:
> yum install sendmail-cf
> Then edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and remove the Addr=127.0.0.1
> restriction from the DAEMON_OPTIONS line and restart sendmail.
> 
I don't know that I would call it "intentionally broken". It is
severely restricted, but if you are going to run a mail server
accessible to the outside world, you are going to have to make some
changes anyway, unless you want to end up with an open relay.

Mikkel
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