[CentOS] Sendmail
Sam Drinkard
sam at wa4phy.net
Fri Nov 4 21:27:36 UTC 2005
Mike Kercher wrote:
>Oops...my bad. Wrong section :)
>
>dnl #
>dnl # The following causes sendmail to only listen on the IPv4 loopback
>address
>dnl # 127.0.0.1 and not on any other network devices. Remove the loopback
>dnl # address restriction to accept email from the internet or intranet.
>dnl #
>DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Name=MTA')dnl
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>Mike
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>________________________________
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> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]
>On Behalf Of Sam Drinkard
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:03 PM
> To: CentOS at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Sendmail
>
>
> I know this is a "generic" question, but fully CentOS related. I
>attempted to set up i386 v.4.1 on my primary computer at the co-located
>site, and thought I had everything squared away till I discovered the
>machine was refusing mail connections. AFIK, I had no firewall or other
>objects blocking port 25. It has been my experience that with most arch's
>and versions where sendmail is the stock mta, they always seem to work out
>of the box with no tweaking at all.
>
> I have got to get this set up but will do it on a test machine
>rather than the production machine. Between that prblem and the changes
>between bind 8 and 9, I was dead in the water from the outset. Back online
>with the BSD machine for the time being.
>
> Any reason why mail connections would be refused ? (yes sendmail
>was running too)
>
> Thanks..
>
> Sam
>
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>
Mike,
I did that too.. because I also need the port 587 opened up due to
knology blocking port 25. I'm "pretty sure" I uncommented the part
about listening on 25, but will have to double check. I automatically
assumed it was some type of other function blocking (refusing connects)
Thanks...
--
Snowman
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