Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

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  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.

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