sendmail under YDL 3.0

[nathan r. hruby]

You need to edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and comment out the line that looks 
like this:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

There's details of this in the redHat 8.0 Documentation...

-n


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, C. Michael McCallum wrote:

> 
> Hi,  I'm in the process of upgrading my 2.1/2.3 machines to 3.0.  I'm 
> working on a workstation before I upgrade my critical server, and I'm 
> having trouble with sendmail (sendmail-8.12.8-5.90).  I'm not able to 
> get mail from outside this machine.
> I have tried to set up the sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc files as on my 
> 2.1 machine (sendmail-8.11.6-2.7.1), but I am having a lot of trouble.
> 
> I have set  up the /etc/mail/local-host-names and /etc/relay-names with 
> all the names of the new machine (only the fully-qualified and simple 
> names).
> 
> As a first clue, when I try and connect to port 25, I get a refusal:
> 
> [root@onsager /root]# telnet gibbs.cop.uop.edu 25
> Trying 10.10.160.109...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> 
> This leads me to believe that I have the port turned off, but sendmail 
> is running.
> 
> Another clue is the difference in netstat -a results.  Here is the 3.0 
> machine's output:
> 
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         
> State
> tcp        0      0 localhost.localdo:32769 *:*                     
> LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:imaps                 *:*                     
> LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:http                  *:*                     
> LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     
> LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 localhost.localdoma:ipp *:*                     
> LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 localhost.localdom:smtp *:*                     
> LISTEN
> 
> 
> Here is the (working) 2.1 machine's result:
> 
> tcp        0      0 *:www                   *:*                     
> LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:auth                  *:*                     
> LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     
> LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*                     
> LISTEN
> 
> I don't think the 3.0 machine should have "localhost.localdomain" under 
> the SMTP, but I don't know why it is like that, or how to fix it.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike
> --
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> Associate Professor
> Department of Chemistry, UOP
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nathan hruby <nathan@drama.uga.edu>
computer services specialist  
uga drama & theatre                        
reality is a moving target
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