Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 23:05:15 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail = mind boggling Message-ID: <20060609200515.GA83230@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0606091234m28ad97b5o6c1f332067888dc4@mail.gmail.com> References: <eeef1a4c0606091234m28ad97b5o6c1f332067888dc4@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2006-06-09 20:34, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I've always steered clear of using Sendmail (prefering Exim), > but I thought I would give it a try and am having real > difficulties with something I think should be simple. Setting up an email server is not really a simple thing to do. > I want to keep running Exim on port 25. I want Sendmail to run > on a different port. So I am trying to use the > "O DaemonPortOptions=Port=2525" option. However, I have 6 cf > files in /etc/mail - freebsd.cf, mail.xxx.co.uk.submit.cf, > freebsd.submit.cf, sendmail.cf, mail.xxx.co.uk.cf and > submit.cf. I've tried all sorts of combinations of adding the > above option to these files, but whenever I try to start > Sendmail this error: > sm-mta[52968]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon Daemon0: cannot bind: Address already in use. This is probably because Sendmail tries to bind port 25 too, which is taken over by Exim. Do you *really* have to run both Sendmail and Exim on the same host? It may be a good idea to run Sendmail within a "jail", and set it up to listen for connections only on the jail's IP address. > Which file(s) am I supposed to put this option into? > I just don't understand. The `mail.xxx.co.uk.mc' file is the right one. If you are putting it anywhere else, you are doing something that is wrong. > Is it correct, also, that I have 6 cf files? I set this up as > per the handbook. At this rate I know why I've always used Exim :-) The Handbook doesn't mention any way to set the DaemonPortOptions stuff, as far as I can tell: $ cd ~/ws/bsd/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook $ fgrep -r DaemonPortOption . $ So you must have been following other instructions too. What are those instructions? - Giorgos
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