[geeks] Sendmail

Ryn matty91 at bellsouth.net
Sat Mar 2 21:01:22 CST 2002


I cannot seem to find my reference, but I thought I read pmce a way to
set sendmail options in /etc/default. I want to make sure patch upgrades
don't overwrite /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Does anyone happen to know?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howard" <scott at doc.net.au>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Sendmail


> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:47:34PM -0500, Ryn wrote:
> > Is there a way to configure sendmail to bind to port 25 but only accept
> > connections
> > from localhost? We are trying to configure mail delivery agents on our
> > applications
> > servers, and want to disable everyone but the local machine from relaying
mail.
>
> In sendmail.cf :
> Change
> O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA
> to
> O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA,Address=127.0.0.1
>
> If you're using .mc generation (as you should be!) then the line to add to
> your .mc file is
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA, Address=127.0.0.1')
>
>   Scott.
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