I would strongly suggest that you *don't* make that suggested change. A lot of code assumes that localhost is 127.0.0.1 and you'll find that other things break.
You've really got two choices, well, three. Among your choices :-) First you could just change sendmail back to what it was originally, although that'll mean that you can't get to it from another machine (that may not be a problem). Second, you could tell fetchmail to connect to a different host.
The third option, which is, I suspect is the one you're really after, is to have sendmail listen on the wildcard IP address: change sendmail.mc to
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
that way you'll be able to connect to localhost (127.0.0.1) and the 192.* address. Bear in mind that you may have to make other changes if you want to be able to use this machine as a relay, but you probably don't. I do with mine, but then mail is what I do.
jch
soulpoet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
No, I do not fiddle with the localhost 127.0.0.1 IP association. Way too much breaks that way!
Your suggestion worked: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl I then did a make -C /etc/mail and restarted the service.
Yet, this seems to be a change from RH8. I don't recall setting the sendmail DAEMON_OPTIONS this way. Any insights?
Now, I am off to daemonize fetchmail!
Thanks to everyone who responded. I appreciate it.
Cheers-- Charles
