Ben, This is very useful info and is deeply appreciated. (You can have my porcupine if you want it... :-) )
Thank you. Jeff. On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that's right, but somebody who hasn't given up and gone with > > postfix might point out a flaw ... > > Looks good to me. > > In my SMTP configs, I don't have an "M:LOGIN" line, but I have no > idea what that does, so maybe it's needed with DynDNS, or some > distros, or maybe it's just making a default explicit, or whatever. > Presumably one should include it. > > > > like if the current init scripts don't compile anymore (used to have to > > install a sendmail-cf package and run 'm4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > > > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf'). > > One still needs the sendmail-cf package installed, but on hat-like > systems (including CentOS), one can just do: > > make -C /etc/mail > > and it will automatically build all the needed files, databases, maps, > and so on. (There's a Makefile in the /etc/mail directory, and the -C > just tells make(1) to look there.) > > > > Inbound might have to wait until tomorrow! > > Sendmail runs an MSA (Mail Submission Agent -- "SMTP lite") on > TCP/587 by default, but hat-like systems shut that off by default, > too. Their stock sendmail.mc macro config file does have a commented > out line which seems intended to turn this back on. Removing the > comment-out, it would be: > > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea') > > Run make, restart Sendmail, adjust any firewall rules, and one > should be all set. > > -- Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/