Hi Adam, Yes; thanks. I fixed this in short order after researching it on Red Hat's web site... Wasn't a difficult fix once I realized what was being done. The security implications make sense, and I'm glad RH chose to do things this way on second thought. Hmmm, I installed RH 7.2 clean, and don't recall this issue then. Strange. Maybe I fixed it then, too, and just don't remember, as I have slept many many times since then! On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > Actually, Redhat was blocking sendmail in 7.2. I'm pretty sure of this > because I didn't know how to configure sendmail to not let any outside > connections in. I wanted this because I only use sendmail for the back > end to fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my ISP and to send out mail from > the command line. So, I looked at Redhat's configuration file and copied > the line out of it to mine. BTW, the magic line is > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA') > which makes sendmail only listen to localhost. This is a good thing for a > home user, not so good for a server which needs to be able to accept mail > from the Internet at large. Hope this helps. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
