Re: services starting

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

kimbrough gray wrote:
>  so now when i do a ps -elf | grep mail
>
> it says sendmail: rejecting new messages

By default, RH linux is set up to only accept mail from localhost.
To enable it to receive from the outside, you must edit /etc/sendmail.cf
and change the line from:

	O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA

to:

	O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp, Name=MTA

and restart sendmail.  Be damned careful--you may become an open spam
relay.

If you don't know how to set up sendmail securely (and it sounds like
you don't), don't use it.  Go get postfix or one of the other, easier-
to-manage systems.
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