sendmail issue.

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:29, netmask wrote:
> > got to another computer I can not get SMTP to work on my network or
> > remotely, but pop3 does work, only on my network, (for this I am using
> > dovecot, and have ssl enabled), my question is I guess what do I do to
> > enable sendmail remotely, I guess with newer versions they have this
> > disabled because of spam by default, I also want to be able to require
> > password for outgoing mail as well as incoming to help prevent the spam
> > issue.(is this a dovecot thing?)
> 
> I'm guessing you are saying sendmail just isn't binding your external 
> interface.. If you telnet to it from a remote box on port 25, you are getting 
> connection refused?
> 
> Look in your sendmail.cf for:
> # SMTP daemon options
> 
> You may have a line that looks like:
> O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA, Addr=127.0.0.1
> 
> Add another line that looks like:
> O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA, Addr=192.168.1.1
> 
> where 192.168.1.1 is YOUR external IP.
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I think you meant sendmail.mc not sendmail.cf

I myself would simply dnl the first line, service sendmail restart and
be done with it.

Craig