Todd <Freedom_Lover@pobox.com> wrote:

Mike Gifford wrote:

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RH 8.0 - upgraded with apt-get mailman-2.1.1-4 sendmail-8.12.8-9.90 postfix-1.1.12-1 [...] Tweaking only works if you know what to touch..
True, but I know I've seen that info in either the Red Hat release notes or somewhere else reasonably handy. I haven't run a machine with Sendmail for years, I switched to Postfix after just a few looks at the Sendmail configs.

Yeah.. I've strugled with exim & never tried sendmail..

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Any pointers? /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Yeah, looking at the redhat rpm of sendmail from 7.3, that file contains this: dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1 dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want dnl to accept email over the network. DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

Looks like this would comment it out:

dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

Restarted it and wow.. It worked! Thanks!

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How do I activate postfix so that this is run.. Red Hat uses the alternatives system for this. There is an app, redhat-switchmail which will do this for you. You can also just uninstall sendmail and then postfix will become the default MTA if it's installed.

I could find it in the gui.. Just had lost the text version...

To get postfix to accept connections from other than localhost, you need to comment out this line in /etc/postfix/main.cf: inet_interfaces = localhost

I've switched that to all, if I need to try to switch to postfix.. For right now I'll try to get mailman running with sendmail.

Appreciate your help todd.

Mike

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