Re: [SPAM] - RE: Setting up a mail server - Found word(s) listerror in the Text body.

From: Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz_at_uni-bielefeld.de)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:09:52 +0200
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Mark Haney um 17:58:

    > Here's a link to the article I used to walk through the steps of setting
    > up sendmail. About the only thing I needed to worry about with dovecot,
    > was changing the dovecot.conf file to use pop3 as well as imap.
    >
    > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5507

    > Mark Haney

    From the linuxjournal article:
    ---quotation---
    This machine has an address of 192.168.100.134 on the eth0 interface.
    Once you have that address, edit the /etc/sendmail.cf file and configure
    the sendmail dæmon to listen on the address.

    # SMTP daemon options

    O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA

    change to

    O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.100.134, Name=MTA

    Once you have completed this task, save this file and restart the
    sendmail dæmon using the rc script /etc/init.d/sendmail.
    ---quotation end---

    That is bad bad bad. Don't edit the sendmail.cf! The risk to do
    something wrong is much higher than using sendmail.mc, you won't be able
    to tranport individual settings onto a different machine with different
    setup (at least not without headaches), and - most important - you will
    loose all changes by the sendmail init script on Fedora once you changed
    the sendmail.mc as it automatically rebuilds the sendmail.cf from the
    sendmail.mc!

    Too it is wrong to exchange the localhost IP to the individual host
    address! That will prohibit a proper running Sendmail daemon as he is
    still no more listening on localhost. That will cost you a good part of
    functions. Either comment out the DAEMON_OPTIONS line in the sendmail.mc
    as documented in there or if you want to limit the daemon on a part of
    your available IPs then add DAEMON_OPTIONS lines for each IP you want to
    have Sendmail listening on.

    Alexander 

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