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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