Am Die, 2003-02-18 um 09.06 schrieb Jason Dale: > Hi again, > > Here is a screendump of the errors I am getting when I try to send mail > from the outside world to my testmail account. > This is what I get: $ host -t mx primaryblue.com primaryblue.com mail is handled by 5 mail.primaryblue.com. primaryblue.com mail is handled by 10 mx01.citec.net. $ host mail.primaryblue.com mail.primaryblue.com has address 209.212.104.70 $ telnet mail.primaryblue.com 25 Trying 209.212.104.70... Hangs forever I guess. $ ping mail.primaryblue.com PING mail.primaryblue.com (209.212.104.70) from 192.168.0.202 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 209.212.104.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=702 ms 64 bytes from 209.212.104.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=715 ms 64 bytes from 209.212.104.70: icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=681 ms Hangs forever I guess. Is mail.primaryblue.com your primary mailserver? Is 209.212.104.70 the correct IP address? Type "lsof" -i and see if the port 25 is opened by sendmail Do you have tcpwrappers enabled (/etc/hosts.deny: "ALL:ALL") Restart sendmail and send the logs Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf Spenneberg RHCE, RHCX IPsec/PPTP Kernels for Red Hat Linux: http://www.spenneberg.com/.net/.org/.de Honeynet Project Mirror: http://honeynet.spenneberg.org Snort Mirror: http://snort.spenneberg.org -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list