Subject: Re: help please mail crisis !!!
To: Paul (NCC/CS). <pts@bom.gov.au>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/30/2006 11:03:23
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:39:25PM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
> sendmail is running and SAYS accepting connections.


rc.conf:

sendmail=YES            sendmail_flags="-Lsm-mta -bd -q30m"
smmsp=YES               smmsp_flags="-Lsm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m"

add 

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, address=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA')
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet6, address=::, Name=MTA6, Modifiers=O')

to your .mc-file and regenerate /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

(for a fast hack, change in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

# SMTP daemon options

O DaemonPortOptions=Family=inet, address=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA, Modifiers=O
O DaemonPortOptions=Family=inet6, address=::1, Name=MTA6, Modifiers=O

to

O DaemonPortOptions=Family=inet, address=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA, Modifiers=O
O DaemonPortOptions=Family=inet6, address=::, Name=MTA6, Modifiers=O

instead - but don't forget to adapt the above in your mc file!)

then

/etc/rc.d/sendmail restart

(or reboot the machine).

Regards,
	-is