> What happens when you login to host11 and do this: telnet host12 smtp If I am sitting on host12, the smtp responds and greets me, and accepts mail, thru telnet. But if I am sitting on host11 and try to talk on telent to host12, on SMTP port. It does not respond. > The default sendmail config does this without allowing > connections from remote machines (only listens for connections from > 127.0.0.1). Yes, you are right. Presnetly, it is only listening to 127.0.0.1 and not to outside hosts. The question is how will it listen to connections from other hosts? > That only works if each user has a mail account on the mail server, a > setup which I recommend. There is no need to setup an SMTP server on > multiple machines. Agreed. But the problem is that presently, all hosts are listening to their machines only on smtp port. How to ensure that the SMTP listens to all the hosts. So, my question still remains, "How to make mail server listen to all the hosts of my intranet, when I am using /etc/hosts? bye shiraz __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page ? Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
