Re: mail delivery on LAN

From: Anthony E. Greene (tony_at_greene-family.org)
Date: 12/28/04

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    On 27-Dec-2004/17:13 -0800, Shiraz Baig <shiraz_baig@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >
    >>The default sendmail config does this without allowing
    >>connections from remote machines (only listens for
    >>connections from 127.0.0.1).
    >
    >Yes, you are right. Presnetly, it is only listening to
    >127.0.0.1 and not to outside hosts. The question is
    >how will it listen to connections from other hosts?

    Edit sendmail.mc to comment out the DAEMON_OPTIONS line. Then rebuild
    sendmail.cf and restart sendmail:

      m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
      service sendmail restart

    Tony 

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