sendmail listen

[Koller Krisztian]

Server is behind a firewall (sonicwal) and a DNS address points him.
VPN is alltime.
Sendmail listens for VPN address, but we need listens to the public address, 
too.
Is it possible?

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: sendmail listen


> Koller Krisztian wrote:
>> We have a mail server (FC3 + sendmail) which has a public ip address, but 
>> the ip address of network card is 10.0.0.1 (for security reasons, only 
>> VPN access over ssh) .
>> We need use this server from out with its public address.
>>
>> DAEMON_OPTIONS('Port=smtp, Addr=xx.yy.zz.gg, Name=MTA')
>>
>> When I write the public address in Addr parameter, sendmail doesn't want 
>> start. (I think beacuse the address of network card isn't equals with the 
>> public address)
>>
>> How can I solve the problem?
>
> How is sendmail supposed to be able to listen on an address that your 
> computer does not have an interface for? How is the public IP address 
> associated with this server?
>
> How is your VPN connection established? Is it there all the time, or 
> created on demand?
>
> If you don't specify an "Addr" parameter, sendmail will listen on all 
> interfaces, and should accept connections from VPN interfaces as and when 
> they are established.
>
> Paul.
>
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