Outgoing mail problems

[Huw Wyn Jones]

Sendmail is actually OK for sending - but only from localhost i.e. webmail,
bbs's etc. not from users connecting from outside. The problem was that
sometimes it didn't send some e-mails whilst happily sending others. I've
just rebuilt MailScanner and it seems to be working OK now. Is there a way I
can check if MailScanner is holding back outgoing mail ?

Cheers

Huw


> On 3 Dec 2002 at 0:00, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> > I've just set-up MailScanner 4.05-3 from RPM on a RH8 box running
> > Sendmail and F-prot (Dual P3 1GHz., 768Mb RAM). Load is really
> light -
> > no more than a few hundred e-mails a day at the mo. Incoming mail
> > seems to be perfect - 100% success. Problem is that some outgoing
> > e-mails get sent OK through the system - others seem to disappear
> into
> > a queue and not get sent at all. Can anybody suggest what might be
> > wrong ?
>
> The default RedHat setup (for 7.x anyway) has relaying disabled by
> default.
>
> Find /etc/sendmail.mc or /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (depending on where it
> is in a RH8 box).
>
> You need to comment out (prefix 'dnl ') to the four line below (I've
> left the comment in):
>
> 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')
>
> Then run it through m4 to create your new sendmail.cf file.
>
> Francis.
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