How to make sendmail listen on an address other than the loopback

[Andrew Falanga]

On Friday 28 December 2007 11:24:50 Derek Ragona wrote:
> At 11:33 AM 12/28/2007, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm trying to get an e-mail system working for my church
> >(whitneybaptist.org).
> >I've added a file called local-host-names in /etc/mail as described in the
> >Handbook, then did "/etc/rc.d/sendmail restart" and then did "sockstat |
> > grep sendmail" and got the following results:
> >
> >root     sendmail   32889 3  tcp4   127.0.0.1:25          *:*
> >root     sendmail   32889 4  dgram  -> /var/run/logpriv
> >smmsp    sendmail   696   3  dgram  -> /var/run/log
> >
> >
> >Now, with the exception of the additional file, nothing has been done to
> > this stock sendmail configuration (system is 6.2-RELEASE-p7).  How would
> > I make sendmail listen on the ip of 192.168.2.23?  I do have some
> > experience with sendmail, however, it was several years ago and I've
> > forgotten quite a bit. Why isn't it listening on that address now?
> >
> >Andy
>
> Take a look at your settings for sendmail in /etc/rc.conf vs
> /etc/default/rc.conf
>
> You need two instances of sendmail running, one for local delivery, another
> for external mail send receive.
>
>          -Derek

Derek,

Thank you.  Interesting that the Handbook didn't mention it.  At least, this 
section didn't mention it and this is what I was looking to:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html

Thanks again.  I set "sendmail_enable='YES'" in /etc/rc.conf (per instructions 
to leave alone /etc/defaults/rc.conf) and then did /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart 
and it worked.

Andy