Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:57:05 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: dwilde1@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS Message-ID: <87eiphovr2.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <eefa2c8b0910051748x22a56f2fq25c118f6e9cd7f62@mail.gmail.com> (Don Wilde's message of "Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:48:09 -0500") References: <eefa2c8b0910051748x22a56f2fq25c118f6e9cd7f62@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:48:09 -0500, Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, folks -
>
> I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get
> it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost.
>
> I've added
> CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet,
> Addr=64.156.192.103, Name=MTA')dnl
>
> directly above the DAEMON_OPTIONS lines (after the FEATUREs),
> recompiled with make -C, and copied the domain-specific cf to
> sendmail.cf.
CLIENT_OPTIONS() does not set options for clients connecting *to*
Sendmail, but for Sendmail itself when it acts as a client to an other
MTA.
> Sendmail starts correctly, so the m4 compilation was successful, but
> it is still only listening on 127.0.0.1:25 according to netstat -atn.
This is often a configuration error that launches only a local Sendmail
listener. Show us your `/etc/rc.conf' settings:
# grep -i sendmail /etc/rc.conf
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