[Wolves] SMTP turn on

Martyn Carey lists at kryogenix.co.uk
Thu Feb 10 21:24:57 GMT 2005


So True

i remember the days of using sendmail woooooo! lots of lost hours
trawling a 15,000,000 page conf file lol!

Personally i no use postfix its stable and does what i want!

Thanks

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:50 +0000, Ron Wellsted wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Wayne Morris wrote:
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> > Having a funny five mins - settin up my first server in 18 months and I just 
> > can't remember all the little things!
> > Redhat FC3
> > Email - Smtp connection refused - if I remember rightly you needed to turn on 
> > pop, imap, smtp somewhere like xinetd.conf,
> > but its not in there. Any clues?
> >
> 
> IIRC Red Hat/Fedora has sendmail configured to refuse smtp connections 
> from anything other than localhost by default.
> 
> could this be your problem?
> 
> If so, the solution is to edit /etc/sendmail.cf (or modify the m4 config 
> file and use that).
> 
> It may be easier to switch from sendmail to postfix/exim/qmail/(insert 
> anything MTA name here).
> 
> It is said that you are not a true sysadmin until you have edited 
> /etc/sendmail.cf by hand and that you are/will go mad if you do so 
> twice.
> 
> 
> - -- 
> Ron Wellsted
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> ron at wellsted.org.uk
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