Re: My Machine can't receive mail

[Jack Wallen <jack wallen techrepublic com>]

i just went through this. take a look at the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file
for this line:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

you can either change it to:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA')

or comment it out (i think that will work)

and then rerun m4 on the file

m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

and sendmail should now be accepting mail from outside of localhost.


On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 09:55, Reuben D Budiardja wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> It seems that my machine cannot receive mail from outside. I am in LAN 
> network, and my machine has its name from DHCP, which stays the same. I tried 
> to change the file /etc/mail/local-host-names and add my machine name there:
> 
> machine_name.domain.edu
> 
> and restart sendmail, but no result. When I send e-mail to 
> reubendb machine_name domain edu, it will just gone. 
> 
> Any help on this? I am using Redhat 7.2, with the default sendmail included.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Reuben D. Budiardja
> 
> 
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