Cannot email

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Thu Mar 4 11:22:03 UTC 2004


"wintoe" <penguin at myanmar.com.mm> writes:

> Find the following line in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
>     DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl 
> Then uncomment this line. If you want to run on eth_X, pls modify Addr=x.x.x.x
>
>     #cp /etc/mail/sendmail.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.org 
>     #m4  /etc/mail/sendmail.cf >sendmail.cf
>     #cp sendmail.cf /etc/mail  
>         ( if it ask for overwrite, answer yes )
>     #service sendmail restart 
>    Now you should be OK. 

Not sure what this poster is saying.  But if it is to comment out the
Daemon line, then it is not, or maybe I should say `might' not be OP's
problem.  
I run sendmail with that line in force and am able to
telnet to port 25.

I think in OP's case it must mean sendmail isn't running.





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