I realize the security ramifications, but leaving the completely useless seems pretty stupid to me. It should do SOMETHING, even if it's only sending mail from local users.Nicholas Fitzgerald said:Who's idea was it to leave sendmail useless on install?probably a good idea. red hat has a long history of being targets for exploits since it traditionally had a buncha stuff turned on by default, and many users did not know what was running so did not know to shut it off.
I'm running RedHad 8.0. Now that I think of it, the last 7.3 server I worked with didn't have this problem. Too bad RedHat can't see their way clear to upgrade the packages for it like apache and php to something a bit more current. I tried the test you used up there with a couple different email addresses and that didn't work either.No matter what I do I can't send anything anywhere. I'm trying to use a php script to send email to my admin account via a standard mail form. No matter how I configure sendmail it gives me "connection refused by <hostname>" errors in the log. I even tried setting the permiscuous_relay feature at one point and even that didn't work. Can someone please tell me what I need to do to get sendmail to actually send mail?as for getting it to send mail. not sure what version your running but my redhat 7.3 system sends mail just fine w/no configuration I just did an echo "test" | mail my_email_address and 2 seconds later it was in my inbox on my other server.
That's fine, I don't have a problme sending via localhost as that's all I need it to do, but it's not, it's sending via the actual network hostname of the computer. Any idea how to change it to?what exactly are you doing to send mail? I think redhat by default only listens to localhost for SMTP connections, which, unless your RECIEVEING mail on a system is a very good configuration, I wish others would copy it.
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