[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail / Fetchmail Question

[joseph beasley]

Use the DaemonPortOptions in the sendmail.cf.  You can specify multiple
addresses for sendmail to listen on.

http://www.sendmail.org/~gshapiro/8.10.Training/DaemonPortOptions.html

--- Rick Matthews <k5wls at verizon.net> wrote:

> The two servers on my LAN have just been upgraded to CentOS 4 from 
> Fedora Core 2 and Red Hat 8.0.  Program versions have changed,
> default
> settings have changed, and I'm have trouble getting the mail running
> again.
> 
> Let's call the two servers mail.server and other.server.  Mail.server
> 
> runs sendmail/fetchmail/pop3 and Windows clients look to mail.server 
> for pop3 and to the isp for smtp.
> 
> Sendmail also runs on other.server, but only to handle things like 
> Logwatch and Cron Daemon reports. 'root at other.server' is aliased to
> 'root at mail.server' and all mail is delivered through mail.server.
> 
> After the upgrade, almost all of the mail was working as before but 
> root at other.server mail was not being delivered. The mail was still in
> the other.server sendmail queue and maillog indicated "Connection 
> refused by mail.server"
> 
> Mail.server's sendmail was listening on loopback, so I changed it to 
> listen on its internal IP.  That worked, and the queue on
> other.server
> immediately emptied as the mail was delivered.  But then fetchmail 
> was having trouble because sendmail wasn't listening on loopback.
> 
> I played with smtpaddress (replacing localhost) and smtphost in 
> fetchmailrc, but that seems to be going in the wrong direction.
> 
> What is the proper way to do this?  Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> Rick Matthews
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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