Les Mikesell wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>> It should almost work out of the box. Fedora ships an intentionally >>> broken sendmail configuration that won't accept mail from anything but >>> the local box. To fix it you should: >>> yum install sendmail-cf >>> Then edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and remove the Addr=127.0.0.1 >>> restriction from the DAEMON_OPTIONS line and restart sendmail. >>> >> I don't know that I would call it "intentionally broken". > > It is useless for any reasonable use of email - unless you only enjoy > talking to yourself. And it is particularly bizarre that this > brokenness must be fixed by manually editing an obscure file while lots > of other easy and less useful operations have GUI wrappers to do the > grunge work. Someone doesn't want your mail to work. Or they want to > make sendmail look difficult to configure. > It should work fine for people that use fetchmail to download their mail from their ISP. Then again, most ISP's are already blocking incoming port 25 connections to non-commercial accounts, and may require you to request opening up incoming port 25 connections on commercial accounts. They also block outgoing port 25 connections, so the configuration is not going to work for sending mail for a lot of people. So you are going to have to edit the configuration anyway. So the default configuration works for one type of user, and just about any other user is going to have to modify the config file anyway, with information specific to their setup. It has been a long time sense I has able to use a stock Sendmail, or Postfix configuration file regardless of the distribution. I would think that most people that would have a problem with Sendmail only listening on the loopback interface are also going to have to make other changes in order to send messages over the Internet. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
