On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:12 pm, kluu te wrote: > I didnt get any proper answer on my earlier posting, so I'll try again. > What do people do for machines on the local network to use the sendmail > program on the linux server? I have applied hostname or/and IP RELAY > in the /etc/mail/access file and rebuild the database. > restarted sendmail and it didnt work. > Any ideas? if you want sendmail to listen to other IP than 127.0.0.1, edit the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, and comment this line: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA') then run "make -C /etc/mail" *DO NOT* edit the file /etc/sendmail.cf directly, unless you're absolutely know what you're doing. Then add the following to your /etc/hosts.allow: sendmail: ALL Restart xinetd, restart sendmail. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN --------------------------------------------------------- "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." - Linus Torvalds - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list