Oh thanks for pointing that out, I didn't even think of possible issues by doing it that way. You've probably saved me some grief in the future, because I probably would have just gone ahead and done it that way if I had a similar problem. Sorry if I pointed people in the wrong direction. Cheers, Adrian * John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2003-06-22 11:33:27 +0100]: > 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: > > >Hi Charles, > > > >The error: > >.fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > >suggests it is trying to sendmail to the localhost, which if you do a ping > >localhost on the command line, it should resolve to 127.0.0.1. > > > >I suggest because you disabled accepting mail on the address 127.0.0.1, is > >edit your /etc/hosts file to make localhost resolve to 192.168.0.3. > > > >eg: > >192.168.0.3 localhost > > > >Hope that helps. > > > >Cheers, > >Adrian > > > > > > > >>I have loaded RH9 on my RH8 box, and now I am having trouble getting > >>sendmail to receive mail. It sends just fine. I use fetchmail (and a > >>.fetchmailrc file in /root) in a cron. I now get the following error: > >> > >>.fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > >>fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from smtp.tds.net > >> > >>localhost, localhost.localdomain, are both in the access file and in > >>the local-host-names, and I have as usual changed > >> > >>DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.0.3, Name=MTA')dnl > >> > >>to remove the 127.0.0.1 and changed to the IP address above. Finally, > >>/etc/sysconfig/sendmail has daemon=yes and queue=1h > >> > >>So, there is something obvious I am missing. Can anyone help? > >> > >>TIA > >> > >>Cheers-- > >>Charles > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>--- > >>Remember the heroes of UAL 93 > >> > >> > >>-- > >>Shrike-list mailing list > >>Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
