You guys are a bunch of champions!:)

thanks very much, crisis aborted:)

cheers,
Paul.






Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> 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

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