Re: It don't work like it used to

Ditch Brodie wrote:
"Per Hedeland" <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:du03jq$hik$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In article <xtudnWwny67PSJ_ZRVn-gA@xxxxxxxxxxx> "Ditch Brodie"
<dbrodie@xxxxxxx> writes:

# netstat -a | grep smtp
tcp4 0 0 localhost.smtp *.* LISTEN

So, like with several other OSes, the default in current (and
not-so-current) FreeBSD is to have sendmail only listen on the loopback
address (this is what the "localhost" above implies). You need to put

sendmail_enable="YES"

in your /etc/rc.conf, and then do '/etc/rc.d/sendmail restart' (or 'make
restart' in /etc/mail).

Thanks again for your valuable assistance. I tried the above but it's still no go. It's a real drag because I had thing able to receive e-mail from the outside before. Any other advice would be appreciated.

According to your netstat output, sendmail only listens on the loopback interface. After updating FreeBSD, did you let the mergemaster program overwrite any of the sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc files? If so, change the DAEMON_OPTIONS in the .mc file.

See also:
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.22
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section5.html#5.3.1.3

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