Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:24:50 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to make sendmail listen on an address other than the loopback Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20071228122316.02469808@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <200712281033.40654.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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At 11:33 AM 12/28/2007, Andrew Falanga wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get an e-mail system working for my church
>(whitneybaptist.org).
>I've added a file called local-host-names in /etc/mail as described in the
>Handbook, then did "/etc/rc.d/sendmail restart" and then did "sockstat | grep
>sendmail" and got the following results:
>
>root sendmail 32889 3 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25 *:*
>root sendmail 32889 4 dgram -> /var/run/logpriv
>smmsp sendmail 696 3 dgram -> /var/run/log
>
>
>Now, with the exception of the additional file, nothing has been done to this
>stock sendmail configuration (system is 6.2-RELEASE-p7). How would I make
>sendmail listen on the ip of 192.168.2.23? I do have some experience with
>sendmail, however, it was several years ago and I've forgotten quite a bit.
>Why isn't it listening on that address now?
>
>Andy
Take a look at your settings for sendmail in /etc/rc.conf vs
/etc/default/rc.conf
You need two instances of sendmail running, one for local delivery, another
for external mail send receive.
-Derek
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