> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Johnson > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:20 PM > Subject: RE: Sendmail config > > Haven't quite figured it out yet > > When I drop my local firewall (the machine I want to handle > all domain email), I can telnet to ports 110 and 143 but not > port 25 from the remote machine (the one I want to forward > email to the local machine. From another local machine, on > my LAN, I CAN telnet to port 25 on the mail server > > So at least one problem (at this point I think the only > problem) is at the local end > > I've checked hosts.allow and restarted xinetd > I've edited /etc/mail/access and run make > I've edited /etc/mail/relay-domains > > Any other ideas? > > The fact that I can telnet to ports 110 and 143 from the > remote machine (when I drop the firewall) but I can't telnet > to port 25 (but I can from another local machine) leads me to > believe that my local sendmail config is the problem > > Please note that I dropped my firewall (the mail gateway is > directly attached to my dsl modem - there is no router between > to cause problems) and netstat shows sendmail listening on 0.0.0.0:25 > Are you sure you don't have a firewall script starting on your other system? The fact that you can telnet to this system (from another system) on your LAN tells me that sendmail is at least listening and accepting connections. Steve Cowles -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
