On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Vinny Valdez wrote: > Have you searched on this? It is all over this list, linuxdoc.org, > google, redhat's site. This is the default setup for RedHat/sendmail. > > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-email-sendmail.html
Surprisingly, I didn't see instructions among the "Common Configuration Changes" for just getting it turned on. > You have to do two things: > > 1. sendmail in RedHat 7.1 and 7.2 uses tcpwrappers. Add appropriate > entries in /etc/hosts.allow such as: > > sendmail:<which networks to allow> This is easy to overlook and not mentioned anywhere I could see in the documentation. > 2. configure sendmail to listen to connections other than just loopback: > edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc look for the line that says: > > dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device > 127.0.0.1 > dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want > dnl to accept email over the network. > > And comment out the following line. Then, you have to generate a new In case it is not apparent, M4 comments are lines beginning with "dnl". > sendmail.cf. The instructions are at the top of that file > /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. In short, you run > > m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf > > You may want to backup your sendmail.cf first, just in case. > > Restart sendmail, viola! > > Vinny > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
