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[Adrian <soulpoet southcom com au>]

Oh thanks for pointing that out, I didn't even think of possible issues by doing it that way.  You've probably saved me some grief in the future, because I probably would have just gone ahead and done it that way if I had a similar problem.

Sorry if I pointed people in the wrong direction.

Cheers,
Adrian

* John Haxby <jch samsungcontact com> [2003-06-22 11:33:27 +0100]:

> I would strongly suggest that you *don't* make that suggested change.  A 
> lot of code assumes that localhost is 127.0.0.1 and you'll find that 
> other things break.
> 
> You've really got two choices, well, three.   Among your choices :-)   
> First you could just change sendmail back to what it was originally, 
> although that'll mean that you can't get to it from another machine 
> (that may not be a problem).   Second, you could tell fetchmail to 
> connect to a different host.
> 
> The third option, which is, I suspect is the one you're really after, is 
> to have sendmail listen on the wildcard IP address:  change sendmail.mc to
> 
>    DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
> 
> that way you'll be able to connect to localhost (127.0.0.1) and the 
> 192.* address.  Bear in mind that you may have to make other changes if 
> you want to be able to use this machine as a relay, but you probably 
> don't.   I do with mine, but then mail is what I do.
> 
> jch
> 
> soulpoet southcom com au wrote:
> 
> >Hi Charles,
> >
> >The error:
> >.fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> >suggests it is trying to sendmail to the localhost, which if you do a ping 
> >localhost on the command line, it should resolve to 127.0.0.1.
> >
> >I suggest because you disabled accepting mail on the address 127.0.0.1, is 
> >edit your /etc/hosts file to make localhost resolve to 192.168.0.3.
> >
> >eg:
> >192.168.0.3            localhost
> >
> >Hope that helps.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Adrian
> >
> > 
> >
> >>I have loaded RH9 on my RH8 box, and now I am having trouble getting
> >>sendmail to receive mail. It sends just fine. I use fetchmail (and a
> >>.fetchmailrc file in /root) in a cron. I now get the following error:
> >>
> >>.fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> >>fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from smtp.tds.net
> >>
> >>localhost, localhost.localdomain, are both in the access file and in
> >>the local-host-names, and I have as usual changed
> >>
> >>DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.0.3, Name=MTA')dnl
> >>
> >>to remove the 127.0.0.1 and changed to the IP address above. Finally,
> >>/etc/sysconfig/sendmail has daemon=yes and queue=1h
> >>
> >>So, there is something obvious I am missing. Can anyone help?
> >>
> >>TIA
> >>
> >>Cheers--
> >>Charles
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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