Sendmail as a send-only local server: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:02, 28 October 2018

# cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf
Edit sendmail-slackware.mc :
- Add the line FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl to the end of the FEATURE block
- Add the line DAEMON_OPTIONS(`NAME=NoMTA4,Family=inet,Addr=127.0.0.1')dnl right before the MAILER lines
# m4 sendmail-slackware.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

root:           user
user:           user@example.org

to the end of /etc/mail/aliases; then run the command newaliases

# /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart
Make sure that the fqdn-hostname is whitelisted in the inbound smtp server for example.org

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-*Edit <code># cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf</code>:
+*<code># cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf</code>
-*Edit <code>sendmail-slackware.mc</code>:
+*Edit <code>sendmail-slackware.mc</code> :
-**Add the line <code>FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl</code> to the FEATURE block
+**Add the line <code>FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl</code> to the end of the FEATURE block
-**Add the line <code>DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1,Name=MTA')dnl</code> right before the MAILER lines
+**Add the line <code>DAEMON_OPTIONS(`NAME=NoMTA4,Family=inet,Addr=127.0.0.1')dnl</code> right before the MAILER lines
-*<code># m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/sendmail-slackware.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf</code>
+*<code># m4 sendmail-slackware.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf</code>
 *Add something like
 <pre>root:           user
 user:           user@example.org</pre>
-:to <code>/etc/mail/aliases</code>; them run the command <code>newaliases</code>
+:to the end of <code>/etc/mail/aliases</code>; then run the command <code>newaliases</code>
 *<code># /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart</code>
-* Add the fqdn-hostname to the whitelist of the inbound smtp server for <code>example.org</code>
+*Make sure that the fqdn-hostname is whitelisted in the inbound smtp server for <code>example.org</code>
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