Les Mikesell wrote: > Tim wrote: >> Mikkel L. Ellertson : >>>> Now, as far as non-standard environments, needing Sendmail to accept >>>> connections from the Internet is a non-standard environment. >> >> Les Mikesell: >>> Beg your pardon? Email as we know it can't work unless this happens. >> >> Correction: E-mail as *YOU* know it... > > Yes, I consider both ends of the connection, as you've obviously ignored. > Explain this - It makes no sense in the context of the message. >> I've never had Linux accepting mail from the internet with its SMTP >> server, in all the years that I've used Linux. And only those with >> their own domain name and/or fixed IP address could to that, either. > > OK, and how many domain names and fixed IP addresses are there? Do you > think those numbers make things unlikely? > Make what unlikely? That they would be running Sendmail, Fedora Core, and would consider using a GUI to configure it? Definitely. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
