sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
Let's try another sendmail question: I'm running sendmail 8.14.3 on fedora 10 and I need help understanding how to work with listening ports. I have two machines which I will call "A" and "B". "A" has two NICs: eth0 is connected to the outside, and "B" is connected to eth1 on "A". "A" is the send

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > The list manager running on "A" was configured to send to localhost:24 ... Why? :) > I did this by setting: > define(`confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE', `20')dnl > which for me makes sense. (Am I wrong?) :-( Well, that means Sendmail will re

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 10/13/09 17:34, quoth Ben Scott: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: >> The list manager running on "A" was configured to send to localhost:24 ... > > Why? :) > >> I did this by setting: >> define(`confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE', `20')dnl >> which for me makes sense. (Am I

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > The way I understand it, sendmail made to switchover a while back to separate > out the sendmail process from the MSP. I guess the question is: Why did they > do this in the first place? Security. To avoid having to run quite as much stu

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Ben Scott wrote: >  TCP/24 is assigned to LMTP, Local Mail Transfer Protocol. P.S.: I'm pretty sure that whatever you've got configured on TCP/24, it ain't LMTP. It appears to basically be a fairly typical Sendmail SMTP MTA, except modified with: C don't

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-14 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I'm running sendmail 8.14.3 on fedora 10... There's your problem right there. Try these commands: yum install postfix yum remove sendmail Sorry, I just couldn't resist. ;-) Seriously though, I've converted enough sendmail installs to p

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: > yum install postfix I honestly considered suggesting trying another MTA, but the only MTA I know how to configure is Sendmail, and I didn't know for sure if (e.g.) Postfix could do what the OP wants. Since you seem to think it can: I

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-14 Thread Alan Johnson
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: > > yum install postfix > > I honestly considered suggesting trying another MTA, but the only > MTA I know how to configure is Sendmail, and I didn't know for sure if > (e.g.) Postfix coul

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers Let's try again.

2009-10-15 Thread Steven W. Orr
Ok. I actually learned a huge amount of stuff from my last question, despite how hard people tried to ridicule my use of sendmail and generally have caused me to realize that my only out is suicide. BUT! Before I die, I'd like to know one more thing about ports: It seems that by default, sendmail

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers Let's try again.

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > It seems that by default, sendmail listens on ports 25 and 587. Things that > come in on 25 are tagged as MTA. Things that come in on 587 are tagged as MSA. Sendmail doesn't even tag the messages that are coming in. It's just a different

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers Let's try again.

2009-10-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > I was tempted to do something goofy, like reverse all the characters > in your text, just to get you going, but I'm too tired to go to the > effort right now. ;-) perl -0777 -ne 'print join "", reverse split //' Regards, --kevin (who sends all of his email using technolo

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers Let's try again.

2009-10-16 Thread Shawn O'Shea
> > > perl -0777 -ne 'print join "", reverse split //' > > And just because I'm a python geek: python -c "import sys; print sys.stdin.read()[::-1].strip()" -Shawn ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailm