> It is useless for any reasonable use of email - unless you only enjoy > talking to yourself. And it is particularly bizarre that this 99.lots % of people only need internal email for daemons etc so a long time ago (Red Hat 5 or so I think) it was decided that since sendmail had such a godawful security history that it would be a lot safer if our mail daemon simply didn't listen to the outside world by default. Since then a lot has happened - sendmail has a much better security behaviour on the whole, firewalling can cover the port instead, and GUI tools have appeared. > grunge work. Someone doesn't want your mail to work. Or they want to > make sendmail look difficult to configure. Well it could all be a plot by terrorists to cripple the US economy, and they might be hiding under your bed, but as in almost every case in the real world its simply a rational decision whose shelf-life has expired. There has been some very sensible discussion about shipping one of the minimal mail daemons by default instead, and failing that since the firewall tools cover port 25 control there is a good argument for relaxing the mail daemon default paranoia a little. File a bug, discuss it with the maintainer, write a GUI control tool... Alan
