sendmail should not bind to loopback only

Wouter Oosterveld wouter at fizzyflux.nl
Mon Feb 4 13:12:02 UTC 2008


Thank you! That fixed it.

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I can't find this in the FreeBSD handbook (not in
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html
anyway). Would that be a documentation bug? If not, which piece of
documentation should I have read?

Regards,

Wouter

2008/2/4, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>:
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> Wouter Oosterveld wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm experiencing a weird problem with sendmail on a FreeBSD
> > 6.3-RELEASE machine (Dell PE2950 AMD64). Sendmail seems to only bind
> > to the loopback device while not explicitly configured. I copied the
> > config from an 5.3-RELEASE-p9 machine.
>
> Change
>
> sendmail_enable="NO"
>
> to
>
> sendmail_enable="YES"
>
> in /etc/rc.conf
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
>
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