[plug] Sendmail on RH 8.0- accepting connections

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:41:37PM +0000, Mark O'Shea wrote:
...
> One thing that Redhat tends to do (I don't know if they do in RH8) is set
> up sendmail so that it doesn't accept connections that aren't local out of
> the box.  Check /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf/redhat.mc (might be RedHat.mc). If
> it has a commented line (ie. starting with dnl) saying that the next line
> will stop all external connections then that will be your problem.  Just
> put dnl at the begining of the line (or delete it) and then remake the cf
> file:
> 	m4 newmcfile.mc > sendmail.cf
> Then copy it over and restart sendmail.  That might be a lot of the
> problem.  Then again it might not.

I was looking at this just this afternoon.  On RH8 it's
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc, and it does default to only listening on
127.0.0.1.  There are instructions in comments in the file.




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Russell Steicke

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