> >I understand that one must have sendmail running in daemon > mode for mail > >delivery to work correctly in RH9. However, on the firewall > system that I'm > >building there is an SMTP proxy that binds to port 25 and this causes > >sendmail to cough up blood then die. Is there a config > option that will > >tell sendmail *not* to bind to port 25? > > Yes :-) > > I suppose you'd like to know what it is as well :-) Urmmm, well, yes actually. ;-D > I'm going from memory here a lot. You can get a better > answer by from > the Contact 8.0.3 beta from www.samsungcontact.com -- everything you > need to know might be in the release notes if you're lucky. I can't > remember -- sorry. > > Anyway, make sure you have the sendmail-cf RPM installed. Edit > /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. Change the DAEMON_OPTIONS line to say > "Port=submission" instead of "Port=smtp". It's probably enough to > uncomment the DAEMON_OPTIONS line just below that, I haven't > tried that > approach. Now edit /etc/mail/submit.mc -- and this is > where I'm going > from memory -- my Bat Book is at work -- Change the last line from > > FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl > > to > > FEATURE(`msp', `127.0.0.1]', `MSA')dnl > > Yes, that seems to work. cd to /etc/mail and run "make". > > The relay > mailer definition in submit.cf now ends "A=TCP $h 587". I've just > broken my sendmail configuration to try this out :-( I've got it > working by changing that DAEMON_OPTIONS line I mentioned above so at > least I can send mail locally again. You're right. It seems to have broken mail delivery on my system as well. At least it keeps running though. ;-D -- Michael St. Laurent Hartwell Corporation -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
