Sendmail - How do I change the ports being used?

[Gimili]

Sendmail - How do I change the ports being used?

My OS is Debian woody.

Any and all help appreciated.

Thanks

[kkubasik]

Can you give us more of an idea of what your are trying to accomplish? Something like iptables or any variety of port forwarding software is easy to use, also man sendmail might turn up the config file that holds that.

[Gimili]

Basically I want to use port 5110 and 5025 instead of 110 and 25.

I have a different windows mail server that I want sendmail to send mail to but it runs on the standard ports +5000.

[adrenaline]

Basically I want to use port 5110 and 5025 instead of 110 and 25.

I have a different windows mail server that I want sendmail to send mail to but it runs on the standard ports +5000.

I think for this you will have to scroll down the sendmail.cf file in /etc/mail
it is huge and I don't know exactly how to get there but be patient and it wouldn't hurt to puruse the file anyway

[Gimili]

Thanks for the reply. I searched the sendmail.cf file and I couldn't find 110 or 25.

[adrenaline]

I will look into it.

[adrenaline]

Ok I found it in the .cf file here you go:

(Do yourself a favor and backup your origional version first)

cp sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.orig
then edit sendmail.cf

Look for this line in your .cf file

"DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')"

replace "Port=smtp" to Port=5025 and Addr=127.0.0.1 to Addr=0.0.0.0

[Gimili]

All I have that is similar is:

# SMTP daemon options
O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E

# SMTP client options
#O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, Address=0.0.0.

[adrenaline]

I think you went too far down. What you are looking for is closer to the top
try this

su -
<password>
cd /etc/mail
less sendmail.cf
/127.0.0.1
That should take you to that line
If you are still having difficulty let me know

[Bullethead]

Why would you change the address from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 in your directions for changing ports for pop and smtp?

Look for this line in your .cf file

"DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')"

replace "Port=smtp" to Port=5025 and Addr=127.0.0.1 to Addr=0.0.0.0


Just curious why the localhost address would change from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0?

Thanks for your help.