Upgrading from Redhat 7.3 to 8.0

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Adam,

Yes; thanks.  I fixed this in short order after researching it on Red
Hat's web site...  Wasn't a difficult fix once I realized what was being
done.  The security implications make sense, and I'm glad RH chose to do
things this way on second thought.  Hmmm, I installed RH 7.2 clean, and
don't recall this issue then.  Strange.  Maybe I fixed it then, too, and
just don't remember, as I have slept many many times since then!


On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> Actually, Redhat was blocking sendmail in 7.2.  I'm pretty sure of this
> because I didn't know how to configure sendmail to not let any outside
> connections in.  I wanted this because I only use sendmail for the back
> end to fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my ISP and to send out mail from
> the command line.  So, I looked at Redhat's configuration file and copied
> the line out of it to mine.  BTW, the magic line is
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
> which makes sendmail only listen to localhost.  This is a good thing for a
> home user, not so good for a server which needs to be able to accept mail
> from the Internet at large.  Hope this helps.
>
>
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