On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:21:14AM +1000, Nix wrote:
Sendmail will still send local mail without listening on a network socket. I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do with fetchmail, but you can change in /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail.rc.config:
SENDMAIL_ARGS="-bd -q10m -om"
to
SENDMAIL_ARGS="-q10m -om"
The above is what you would do if you were going to run sendmail off of inetd. But this is not necessary! The above changes are not needed if you add the following to /etc/sendmail.cf O DaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost This causes sendmail to bind to the localhost even though it continues to run as a deamon. Fetchmail delivers mail by dumping into port 25! This happens locally, that is, on the localhost. so the above will allow fetchmail to work while still not allowing those outside the localhost from seeing an open port! -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-9345 1(512)837-1096 pelliott@io.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.io.com/~pelliott/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117