At 2/1/2002 09:37 AM -0500, you wrote:
>I would venture to guess your having the same problem i had. In RHL 7.2
>Redhat made it so sendmail will not get mail from anyone but itself.
>This was done as i understand for some security reason, not sure.
This was done to reduce the number of open relays out on the Internet, to
reduce spam. It is a very valid security concern.
>You need to edit the file: /etc/sendmail.cf
No! You should *not* edit the /etc/sendmail.cf unless you damn well know
what you're doing. (And generally even for those people it's not necessary.)
Instead you should edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. At the very end there is a
short comment with an explanation of what to change and how to change it.
The instructions have been posted to this list many times, and I don't have
my server handy to be sure I give you the exact answer, so I'll not provide
many details here.
Comment out the right line by adding "dnl " at the beginning of the line.
Save the file. Make a backup copy of /etc/sendmail.cf. Create a new
/etc/sendmail.cf using the instructions provided inside sendmail.mc at the
very top ("m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf"). Restart sendmail.
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