Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:01:08 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make sendmail listen on an address other than the loopback Message-ID: <20071229090108.GA1816@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <200712281033.40654.af300wsm@gmail.com> References: <200712281033.40654.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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On 2007-12-28 10:33, Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get an e-mail system working for my church > (whitneybaptist.org). I've added a file called local-host-names in > /etc/mail as described in the Handbook, then did "/etc/rc.d/sendmail > restart" and then did "sockstat | grep sendmail" and got the following > results: > > root sendmail 32889 3 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25 *:* > root sendmail 32889 4 dgram -> /var/run/logpriv > smmsp sendmail 696 3 dgram -> /var/run/log > > Now, with the exception of the additional file, nothing has been done > to this stock sendmail configuration (system is 6.2-RELEASE-p7). How > would I make sendmail listen on the ip of 192.168.2.23? I do have > some experience with sendmail, however, it was several years ago and > I've forgotten quite a bit. Why isn't it listening on that address > now? What you see is `normal' for a host which supports local email delivery and forwards everything else to another `smart host'. If you want to start a listener which also accepts email from the network (instead of a listener only for 127.0.0.1 like the one you have now), you will have to tweak the `sendmail_xxx_enable' options in your `/etc/rc.conf' file. Right now, you probably have something like: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="YES" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES" To run the sendmail daemon for inbound email connections on all network interfaces, you need sendmail_enable="YES", and then you can drop the line for the `submit' daemon: sendmail_enable="YES" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES" Note: For more details about these `rc.conf' variables, it may be useful to read the rc.sendmail(5) manpage.
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