Sorry OT. If possible replace Sendmail. Read the quote from Christos Zoulas at ArsTechnica why they removed Sendmail from NetBSD's base, he puts it bluntly.
""" Sendmail has been, is, and will be a security accident waiting to happen (unless it is rewritten from the ground up with security consciousness). Performing character pointer gymnastics in 50-100 line loops does not create any warm and fuzzy feelings for me. To top this off, most sendmail security issues are marked as confidential, and we are prevented from fixing or mentioning the problem until the ban is lifted. The last time this happened, we said "enough" and removed it altogether before the ban for that particular security issue was lifted """ Ed <http://blog.eonsec.com> On Feb 6, 2008 4:05 PM, Ronald Allan Tomimbang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all! > > this is a trick for those who plan to implement > sendmail+spamassasin+mimedefang. on SLES10 > > it took me more than four (4) days to figure out the problem and required > more brain power and good old plain common sense > to have it working. > > if you happen to have a similar problem on connecting to your hostname both > from the localmachine and remote. while issuing the command: > > $ telnet some-hostname 25 > Trying some-hostname...... > telnet: connect to some-hostname: Connection refused. > > this means that if you issue the command netstat -ant | grep :25 and you > have an output that listens only to > 127.0.0.1:25 > > googling a bit will point you to materials that tells you how to allow > sendmail to listen to multiple ip by editing the > sendmai.mc file and using m4 sendmail.cm > /etc/<where-your-sendmail.cf > resides> but still get the same result. > > then you need to edit a key file on SLES10 rc script! > > here is how its done on SLES boxes: > vi /etc/init.d/rc3.d/<some-prefix-sendmail> > > locate the: SENDMAIL_ARGS="-O DaemonPortOptons=Addr=127.0.0.1 > $SENDMAIL_ARGS" > change it to: SENDMAIL_ARGS="-O DaemonPortOptons= $SENDMAIL_ARGS" > > restart the rc-script # ./<some-prefix-sendmail> restart > > issue the command # netstat -ant | grep :25 voila.....now you are in > business > 0.0.0.0:25 > > with Debian and Ubuntu this is not an issue....in any case Debian for me > shines..... > > cheers! > > > -- > Ronald Allan V. Tomimbang > Computer Center Administration / Unix > Office of Information Systems and Technology > Asian Development Bank > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mobile: 0922-8158229 > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
