On 08/18/2010 07:21 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > On 08/18/2010 09:08 PM, JD wrote: >> On 08/18/2010 04:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: >>>> Thanks to all who made important suggestions. >>>> It now works. >>> Adding SOLVED to the Subject kind of implies that you'll explain *how* >>> it was solved. That's the point. >>> >>> poc >>> >> Well, it was not just one thing, but of all the tweaks I had to do, >> only one turned out to be cruicial: >> I had to comment out one line in sendmail.mc: >> >> cd /etc/mail >> >> edit sendmail.mc >> >> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl >> >> i.e. add dnl to the start of the line, and that comments it out: >> >> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl > You did read the comment just before this line, right? > >> dnl # >> dnl # The following causes sendmail to only listen on the IPv4 loopback address >> dnl # 127.0.0.1 and not on any other network devices. Remove the loopback >> dnl # address restriction to accept email from the internet or intranet. >> dnl # >> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl > The result is that if you were running sendmail with this in place, even > if your router *was* sending you packets to port 25, sendmail wouldn't > be listening for them on any device other than the loopback. > > You must have some other DAEMONS_OPTIONS line uncommented in order for > it to listen to some port somewhere.... > > For years, RedHat has shipped sendmail with this line in place, and for > years, I have gone in and edited it to remove the "Addr=127.0.0.1" > portion so I could receive email from the Internet. > >> The minor changes are the common sense things that most mail admins know: >> >> In sendmail.mc: >> >> MASQUERADE_AS(`the.domain.name.that.resolves.to.your.router's.public.ip.address')dnl >> >> You obtain one of these for free from dyndns.com >> >> Uncomment the line >> >> FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl (i.e. remove the leading # sign and >> leading dnl) >> >> Uncomment the line >> >> FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl > I also have a dynamic IP address (mine's from RCN, not AT&T though) and > I do not need to masquerade anything in order for sendmail to receive > email properly. But, I *do* have dyndns publish MX records for my > domains so that other mailers know where to send the emails to. > > But, because RCN blocks port 25 *outgoing*, I have to send my email out > though RCN's email server using: > > define(`SMART_HOST',`[smtp.mail.rcn.net]') > > Other than that, sendmail works as shipped. I have added a few milters > to my configuration, and recently picked up an IPv6 address from > tunnelbroker.net, and proved that I can receive email via the IPv6 > tunnel as well by adding an MTA-6 listener. > >> Then >> >> ./make >> >> service sendmail restart >> >> There are other files that need administration, but that is out of the >> scope of this. Look, It works. I can send and I can receive. If that is not good enough for some people, there is nothing I can do about it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
