Re: [SLUG] smtp and fedora

[Grant Parnell <gripz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Mike MacCana wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Dennis M. Gray wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to configure a new Fedora installation but get a "Connection
> > Refused" when trying to connect remotely to port 25. I have looked at
> > iptables, which seem okay. netstat -lpetu shows that it is listening on
> > port 25.
> 
> Port 25 of which IP address? In Fedora / RH, Sendmail and Postfix are
> installed as submission agents only (ie, to send email out, but not listen
> externally to recieve it).
> 
> To make Postfix listen on port 25 of interfaces other than the loopback,
> open /etc/postfix/main.cf and change the inet_interfaces line to use all.
> 
> For Sendmail, open up /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mc, find the appropriate
> option (I can't remember it off the top of my head) and regenerate the
> config from the macro config file.

That'll be DAEMON_OPTIONS and the Addr= bit. You can put a dnl in front of 
the line to accept smtp traffic on all IP's.
cat sendmail.mc |m4 >sendmail.cf


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