Help Needed: My RHEL5 box suddenly stopped accepting e-mails

[Mun]

Hi Peter,


On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Peter Skensved <peter at jay.phy.queensu.ca>wrote:

> > Particulars:
> >    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.6 (Tikanga)
> >
> > This last Thu morning (05.05.2011) my RHEL5 suddenly stopped accepting
> > e-mails from other than itself.  I don't know if the following is
> > related, but the following updates were done around the time of the
> > problem starting:
>
>
>  Normally the only change needed to get sendmail to accept external mail is
> :
>
> Change the line :
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
>
> in /etc/smail/sendmail.mc to :
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
>

I think my sendmail.cf file had the analogous change in it--even though
there was not an
uncommented line like the above in my sendmail.mc file.  I went ahead and
made the change
to my sendmail.mc file and restarted sendmail; but it did not make any
difference.

Regards,

-- 
Mun



>
>  Then restart sendmail
>
>       peter
>
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> Peter Skensved                          Email : peter at SNO.Phy.QueensU.CA
> Dept. of Physics,
> Queen's University,
> Kingston, Ontario,
> Canada
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