Archive:FedoraDocs/ReleaseNotes/Core4Test1/PackageSpecific/MailServer

This section contains information related to the mail transport agents included with Fedora Core.

mailman

Earlier mailman RPMs installed all files under the /var/mailman/ directory. Unfortunately, this did not conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and also created security violations when SELinux was enabled.

If you previously had mailman installed and had edited files in /var/mailman/ (such as mm_cfg.py) you must move those changes to their new location, as documented in the following file:

/usr/share/doc/mailman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT

sendmail

• By default, the Sendmail mail transport agent (MTA) does not accept network connections from any host other than the local computer. If you want to configure Sendmail as a server for other clients, you must edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change the DAEMON_OPTIONS line to also listen on network devices (or comment out this option entirely using the dnl comment delimiter). You must then regenerate /etc/mail/sendmail.cf by running the following command (as root):

make -C /etc/mail

Note that you must have the sendmail-cf package installed for this to work.