[TriLUG] Need a Stupid Sendmail trick

[Matt Pusateri]

Dave,

I am not sure what you changed, but I think the sendmail conf you are
looking for is DaemonPortOptions.  That way you can change what sendmail
listens on and still keep 587 for your local mail submission port.


Matt Pusateri

> Since I'm already configured for authentication before relay, I've
> re-configured sendmail to listen on 587. It seems to be working to solve
> the
> immediate issue, but I will know for sure tomorrow when I can test from
> outside the Bellsouth network. Like I said, this is only temporary till my
> lease is up and I make other arrangements. Thanks for all the suggestions!
>
> Dave S.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Jeremy Portzer
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:02 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Need a Stupid Sendmail trick
>
>
> Well, I recommend you switch to postfix and set up TLS on port 465 (the
> standard smtp over SSL submission port).  If that port is blocked you can
> choose another.  Here are some notes I made on this setup a while back:
> 	http://www.trilug.org/~jeremy/mail-notes.txt
>
> Hope this helps, please let me know if you have questions about the setup.
>
> Don't be scared of switching to postfix -- it's easy.  You'll probably
> spend
> less time learning postfix than you would trying to configure sendmail to
> make this one change!
>
> --Jeremy
>