On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 22:14 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > I comment out the 127.0.0.1 line in sendmail.mc as suggested, did a > service sendmail restart It's *ages* since I set up sendmail, but don't you need to have a smtp line in there, rather than comment out the local loopback one? If you leave no configuration, wouldn't nothing be listening? This is from my old server: 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 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.1.2, Name=MTA')dnl I simply bodged on a second line, for my LAN IP address. Which I thought to be a bit more restrictive than having it open-slather (at the time I was on dial-up, and server was directly connected to the ISP). I seem to recall the advice (read later, never tested), was to remove the Addr= portion, so it listened to all addresses. The inline comments suggest the same. e.g. DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl > I did a mail from one machine to another and got a "No route to host". > > I then did a service iptables stop and tried again ... got a > "Connection refused" The two above conditions does sound like you still have a firewalling issue (different response codes with and without iptables in the way). I don't recall much customising needed for sendmail.mc (the adding of my domain name in the obvious places, smarthost to send out through my ISP, listening addresses, are about the only things I can think of, and see, in the old config file). My access file has the local domain names and subnets added, with the RELAY command. localhost.localdomain RELAY localhost RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY lan.example.com RELAY 192.168.1 RELAY The local-host-names file has a list of all the domain names that the server responds to: lan.example.com mail.lan.example.com And so on, and so forth, listing all the different mail-related domain names I'd used while setting up the LAN. I never went exploring to see if that was overkill. Again, just trying the obvious. I'd have suggested viewing sendmail.org, but it seems like the good information has been removed, or buried where I can't see it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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
