In article <[email hidden]>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard of
Just zis Guy said:Far too easy - that's to get Sendmail to listen on 28; I want to
Sendmail is Old Unix, from the days when core memory on a mainframe was measured in kilobytes, and
processor cycles even less. To run them required deep wizardry on the part of the humans in charge.
Sendmail was written for that environment. I used to have just about enough of the arcane knowledge
to tinker with the rulesets, but was pleased to get away from it in about '97.
If you want an easy life, you want a modern MTA.
[1] It wasn't new at the time of my first job - and we had to 'phone the operators to arrange to run
any program that required more than about 2K. Oh, and that was at one of the biggest software
houses in the country.
Quoted message said:forward to another server on the same machine on (e.g.) port 2525. Allegedly this can be achieved
by setting (e.g.) define (`SMTP8_MAILER_ARGS',`TCP $h 2525'😉 in the .mc file and using (e.g.)
mydomain.com smtp8:[127.0.0.1] in the mailertable but This Does Not Work which is a bummer.
I am thinking about changing the approach, though, as I could easily enough map port 25 on my
router to a non-standard port on my internal server, and I could then use Sendmail just to handle
inbound, which has a certain attraction as the main reason for using Sendmail is the
spamass-milter (and possibly a virus scan). This is definitely Much Easier since changing the
daemon port is, as you say, trivial. Actually I just went away, changed it, tested the
non-standard port, changed it back and tested it again in the interval since you posted the
above...
I could also give up and use procmail, but that would be the wimp's way out ;-)
Guy
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