Updated March 07, 2003
Created March 07, 2003


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If sendmail hangs when you start it, then set your hostname:
hostname.html

My mail (from this same machine) kept getting rejected with the following errors:

Mar 2 04:33:34 linuxone sm-msp-queue[20279]: h226X9wP015564: to=root, delay=02:45:54, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=303256, relay=linuxone.mydomain.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by linuxone.mydomain.net.
Mar 2 04:33:34 linuxone sm-msp-queue[20279]: h226X9wN015564: to=postmaster, delay=02:46:20, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=303961, relay=linuxone.mydomain.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by linuxone.mydomain.net.
Mar 2 04:33:34 linuxone sm-msp-queue[20279]: h226X9wO015564: to=postmaster, delay=02:46:20, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=306521, relay=linuxone.mydomain.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by linuxone.mydomain.net.

Here's the short and simple (yes the changes to "/etc/mail/access" is not secure in any way, but I'm behind a firewall so I don't care about security right now, I just want it to work) that I need to be able to send mail.

I'm behind a firewall and here's what I need to get to the outside, I made 3 changes in 2 files, you can see them here in bold, and a leading - represents something taken away, and a leading + represents something added:

--- mail-test/access    2002-08-29 14:38:26.000000000 -0500
+++ mail/access 2003-03-07 14:39:44.000000000 -0600
@@ -7,4 +7,6 @@
 localhost.localdomain          RELAY
 localhost                      RELAY
 127.0.0.1                      RELAY
+net                            RELAY
+com                            RELAY

--- mail-test/sendmail.mc       2002-08-29 14:38:25.000000000 -0500
+++ mail/sendmail.mc    2003-03-07 14:40:17.000000000 -0600
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 OSTYPE(`linux')
 dnl Uncomment and edit the following line if your mail needs to be sent out
 dnl through an external mail server:
-dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')
+define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.myprovider.com')
 define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl
 undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl
 undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 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')
+dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
 dnl NOTE: binding both IPv4 and IPv6 daemon to the same port requires
 dnl       a kernel patch
 dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`port=smtp,Addr=::1, Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6')
After Making the above changes, you have to run "m4" to generate a new sendmail.cf file:
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf



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