[Mailman-Developers] sendmail

[Harold Paulson]

Hi,

Won't this start Sendmail up listing ONLY on the alternate port? 
Since most of us run Mailman as an *extra* feature on our mail 
servers, this probably isn't what people will want.

Is there a simple CLI way to start up Sendmail listening in the usual 
skeptical way on 25, AND in just-do-what-you-are-told mode on a local 
port?

	- H



On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:26:54, "Chuq Von Rospach" wrote:

I did this a little differently, since I know that tweaking sendmail.cf
files gives many people hives, and so people aren't likely to do it. It's
also unneccesary.

You can do this without modifying your sendmail files at all. Instead, in
your startup script, add:

         /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=defer \
                 -ODaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA,Port=NNNN,M=E,Addr=127.0.0.1

Where NNNN is some port number not otherwise used (you can test if
something's in use by doing "telnet localhost NNNN" -- if it's refused,
there's no daemon listening)

This sets up a sendmail process listening to the alternate port, in DEFER
mode, but set to talk only to the localhost interface, so it's not
accessible by anyoneother than your local machine: no open relay problems.

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