Re: Sendmail

[dr john halewood <john frumious unidec co uk>]

On Wednesday 31 October 2001 17:05, Shoshana Rosenthal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to sendmail. I was given a system running RH7.1 on which sendmail
> was installed but probably not configured. I tried to activate sendmail.
> I am successful in sending mail, but not in receiving mail.
> All mail is rejected. I turned "service ipchains stop"
> but it still rejects mail. I read the howtos file and added
> to the /etc/mail/access file the institution's mail server and
> domain.

As from 7.1, the default RedHat sendmail configuration is to only listen on 
the local loopback address. To turn it off either comment out the line
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and rebuild /etc/sendmail.cf ( m4 
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf usually does the trick). Failing 
that, find the line in /etc/sendmail.cf that looks like
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
and comment it out, then restart sendmail.

cheers
john