This one time, at band camp, Scott Mohnkern said: > Stephen Gran wrote: > >This one time, at band camp, Scott Mohnkern said: > >> > >>However, sendmail will only take connections if you telnet to localhost > >>or 127.0.0.1, if you use the ip address, or the hostname, it refuses the > >>connection. > > > >I assume that sendmail is only listening on localhost. Use netstat to > >confirm. If this is the case, you'll need to instruct sendmail to > >listen on the IP addresses you would like it to listen on. > > > Bingo! I moved the configuration to default, and now it's taking > outside mail. However now it's rejecting inside mail. Is there a line > I need to add to the sendmail.mc file to fix this? 'Inside' and 'outside' mail is a little unclear - you mean it is no longer accepting mail from localhost? That doesn't sound like a 'default' config to me. Assuming I have guessed right, you'll want something like the following: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Name=MTA-v4, Port=smtp')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Name=MSP-v4, Port=submission, Addr=127.0.0.1')dnl (these should not wrap) They go in sendmail.mc, and then you'll want to rebuild sendmail.cf from them. I highly recommend picking up a copy of the bat book if you are going to admin sendmail. It is a very complicated beast, and having a good reference makes a lot of difference. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature