From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuri Csapo Subject: Re: sendmail blues Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:51:38 -0700 Message-ID: <4AF4B68A.4070105@exchange.mines.edu> References: <4AF49B12.8050405@exchange.mines.edu> Reply-To: ycsapo@mines.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090102090001070504020703" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Gerardo Juarez-Mondragon Cc: "linux-admin@vger.kernel.org" --------------090102090001070504020703 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gerardo, Thank you for your reply. It is a good idea. I just need to check if it impacts the application as it may be that it e-mails itself on port 25. I'll check. Yuri Gerardo Juarez-Mondragon wrote: > Yuri, > > Another possibility: why not configure the 'killer' MTA application to > use other ports: 20025 instead of 25, etc. (adding 20000 to each seems > like a good idea). After all, you don't use it. It's logical it should > sit there, but out of the way. The other road is much more bumpy, I > can assure you. > > Gerardo > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Yuri Csapo wrote: >> Hi all, I've an unusual (for me) problem: >> >> - I'm running RHEL release 3 (taroon). I know, I know. Nothing I can do - >> it's the application vendor's requirement. >> - This application also MUST have some Sun MTA installed and running, even >> if we don't use it - and we don't. This MTA sits on ports SMTP, SSMTP, IMAP >> and POP, HTTP and HTTPS and provides services to the application only, NOT >> TO THE OS. >> - We still need to be able to mail admin stuff such as logwatch and others. >> RedHat comes with sendmail and we are trying to keep this box as close as >> possible to default configuration. >> - The sendmail queue runner by itself is not enough because I can't find a >> way to make it expand aliases - root messages end up going to >> root@mines.edu, which is not where I want them to go. >> - Sendmail won't start because the silly Sun app is squatting on port 25. >> - If I use DaemonPortOptions to tell sendmail to listen on a different port >> then I get sendmail to start but I haven't found a way to make the queue >> runner send to that port on localhost. The runner ends up connecting to port >> 25, which is the Sun MTA, who proceeds to deny the connection. >> >> Does anybody know how to do one of the following: >> >> - make the sendmail queue runner expand aliases >> - make the queue runner send to a port other than 25 >> - make sendmail behave like in the good old days and forgo the need for the >> queue runner >> >> Some options that have crossed my mind but which I'm trying to avoid: >> >> - redirect port 25 using iptables >> - modify sendmail's source and recompile (ugh) >> - give up on sendmail and install exim or postfix or something that can be >> understood by someone who hasn't read the Bat Book in the last 6 years and >> who is not particularly inclined to read it again. >> >> Any other ideas? >> >> TIA >> >> Yuri >> >> -- >> Yuri Csapo >> Academic Computing & Networking >> Colorado School of Mines >> CT-256 >> Phone: (303) 273-3503 >> Fax: (303) 273-3475 >> Email: ycsapo@mines.edu >> >> Please use the following link to open a service request: >> http://helpdesk.mines.edu >> =========================================== >> With a PC, I always felt limited >> by the software available. >> On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. >> --Peter J. Schoenster >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Yuri Csapo Academic Computing & Networking Colorado School of Mines CT-256 Phone: (303) 273-3503 Fax: (303) 273-3475 Email: ycsapo@mines.edu Please use the following link to open a service request: http://helpdesk.mines.edu =========================================== With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster --------------090102090001070504020703 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset="utf-8"; name="ycsapo.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ycsapo.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Yuri Csapo n:Csapo;Yuri org:Colorado School of Mines;CCIT email;internet:ycsapo@mines.edu title:System Administrator tel;work:(303) 273-3503 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------090102090001070504020703--