On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:51 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:45:42AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > As I said, I was literally unable to get sendmail working despite > > spending an entire weekend on it, > > It would be really interesting to know what you were attempting to > do and how you "over-thought" that installation. For years on most > of Fedora installations sendmail requires really _nothing_ in order > to work locally. If you want to receive mail from an outside world > you need to follow these instructions in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > > 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. > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl > > So you have to comment out one line and do 'service sendmail restart'. > That rewrites for you /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Various other things > are also done easily and quickly by editing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > and for more popular options you do not even need to read > documentation as comments in that file are often enough. Usually > takes few short minutes if you do not desire something "exotic". It was quite a while back, I don't recall exactly what I was trying to set it up to do and what problems I ran into. I just remember it being a complete nightmare, and postfix being far far easier. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
