comcast does it again Port 25

[Jeff Kinz]

Ben,
This is very useful info and is deeply appreciated.

(You can have my porcupine if you want it... :-)   )

Thank you.
Jeff.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>  >  I think that's right, but somebody who hasn't given up and gone with
>  >  postfix might point out a flaw ...
>
>   Looks good to me.
>
>   In my SMTP configs, I don't have an "M:LOGIN" line, but I have no
>  idea what that does, so maybe it's needed with DynDNS, or some
>  distros, or maybe it's just making a default explicit, or whatever.
>  Presumably one should include it.
>
>
>  > like if the current init scripts don't compile anymore (used to have to
>  > install a sendmail-cf package and run 'm4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc >
>  > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf').
>
>   One still needs the sendmail-cf package installed, but on hat-like
>  systems (including CentOS), one can just do:
>
>         make -C /etc/mail
>
>  and it will automatically build all the needed files, databases, maps,
>  and so on.  (There's a Makefile in the /etc/mail directory, and the -C
>  just tells make(1) to look there.)
>
>
>  >  Inbound might have to wait until tomorrow!
>
>   Sendmail runs an MSA (Mail Submission Agent -- "SMTP lite") on
>  TCP/587 by default, but hat-like systems shut that off by default,
>  too.  Their stock sendmail.mc macro config file does have a commented
>  out line which seems intended to turn this back on.  Removing the
>  comment-out, it would be:
>
>         DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')
>
>   Run make, restart Sendmail, adjust any firewall rules, and one
>  should be all set.
>
>  -- Ben
>
>
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