Slightly OT: mta.sh problem

James lists at jfworks.net
Thu May 31 03:21:29 IST 2007


Jim Coates wrote:
> James,
>
> Thanks... we actually found the problem.  Turned out they had upgraded
> MailScanner, but hadn't yet configured the mta.sh script.  It was working
> fine, because it hadn't been restarted, but once they did it failed.
>
> We got the script configured and all is well now.
>
> I do however still have one issue... I used the DaemonPortOption that binds
> outbound IPs to the same one used for inbound.  This works great, except for
> mail submitted by things such as php mail, because it uses
> 127.0.0.1/localhost.  Sendmail complains that it can't bind to that address
> for outbound mail (which I understand).
>
> How can I tell Sendmail to use a different outbound IP for the localhost
> mail?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>   

Good question. So far I haven't needed to bind sendmail to IP's the way 
you have. Can you post what your DaemonPortOptions are and I can try and 
experiment?

James


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