On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 11:41 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 16:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Sam Drinkard wrote on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:22:02 -0500: > > > > > AFAIK, looking at my mc and m4 files the only thing you need to do is > > comment out FEATURE(`no_default_msa') if it is uncommented. You don't need > > any DaemonOptions at all if you want sendmail listen on standard ports 25 > > and submission agent on 587. However, if you use at least *one* > > DeamonOptions line your override that all and have to explicitly set > > one-by-one. > > > > I completely missed that line in the .mc file. Sure enough, > commenting out the submission port and commenting out the no default > MTA worked. I still think there should be something somewhere in the > installation guide to reflect the fact that sendmail as packaged does > not listen on any port except the loopback. You mean like this: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/rhel-rg-en-4/s1-email-mta.html (Look for the "important note" box that starts out: The default sendmail.cf file does not allow Sendmail to accept network connections from any host other than the local computer. ) That would be because for the vast majority of installs, they need an MTA that works on the local machine to send out mail, but it is not a real mail server ... but something that will send php or other mail to a real mailserver. Also, if it accepted mail from everywhere without configuration, it would be as insecure as the Windows XP defaults :) > Really, it's rather dumb to me, that having a MTA that does not listen > on port 25 out of the box. Why even bother starting the sendmail > daemon at all if it's not going to be useable for inbound mail? Because for most machines that are not mail servers, they need out and not inbound mail. > Perhaps someone up the road has different thoughts than I, or perhaps > it's because there are lots of people who don't like sendmail due to > the complexity of the sendmail.cf. Either way, it's now working as it > should.. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051106/0a56ed61/attachment-0005.sig>