I'm running fedora release 2, and I've been trying to get sendmail running when I roll my own.
In fact, I compiled and installed sendmail 8.13.1, and then downgraded 8.12.11, and I couldn't get either of them to work. I would get processes to run, but "netstat –a" would show no "LISTEN" on port 25.
Out of the box, sendmail is configured to only listen on localhost:25. Its a part of the sendmail.mc file. cd to /etc/mail. Comment out this line:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
(add "dnl " to the front of the line) in sendmail.mc and remake your sendmail.cf file via: make sendmail.cf
then reload sendmail via:
# service sendmail reload
-- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
