This is a very frustrating thread. RH has documentation about this... <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-email-mta.html> specifically, 'make -C /etc/mail' is the command - which you still didn't verify. This command may actually fail to make a new sendmail.cf if you have botched the m4 command in the past. To remove all doubt, you should make your changes - as indicated in the link above and then as per the link above... 'm4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf' also, as indicated in the link above, you need to have your domain name(s) in /etc/mail/local-host-names in order to accept mail for your domain. also, you need to make sure that there is no firewall blocking access to port 25 - you can test this easily enough, 'service iptables stop' - if that is the problem, then you need to fix it. also, you will need to install some type of imap/pop3 server daemon and configure it typically via xinetd to allow other machines to access the email received. Craig On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:27, Ivo Mencke wrote: > sorry yes that is correct i ran make -C > there is no iptables on any of these nodes, nmap shows port25 open.. i > can ssh to it, but when i telnet on port 25 i get connection refused, > even though sendmail is running - i dont even get a hello from sendmail > > when i telnet on port 25 i get: > > # telnet <ip> 25 > Trying <ip>... > telnet: connect to address <ip>: Connection refused > > and i see this on the sendmail machine: (sendmail running as sendmail > -bd) > > #tcpdump dst port 25 > tcpdump: listening on eth0 > 15:21:58.480729 (source_ip).40708 > (sendmail_ip).smtp: S > 60403481:60403481(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 2301778867 > 0,nop,wscale 0> (DF) [tos 0x10] > > thats all.. > > > On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 15:25, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:29:52AM +0000, Ivo Mencke wrote: > > > yes, i made changes to the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and the ran "make > > > /etc/mail" > > > > > > is there anything else that would stop mail getting stored locally? > > > iptables isnt running. > > > > > I hope you mean you ran: > > make -C /etc/mail > > -- > > ------------------------------------------- > > Aaron Konstam > > Computer Science > > Trinity University > > 715 Stadium Dr. > > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > > email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
