My understanding is that the typical configuration, now, for Sendmail, is to only answer on the localhost address, until it's reconfigured to answer on other or all IPs on the system.
On 12 Nov 2002, James Pifer wrote: > I appreciate all the responses I have received. They have been extremely > helpful. Right now I'm trying the combination of: > MailScanner/Sendmail/SpamAssassin/F-Prot. The install was really very > easy on RH8 and everything appears to be running, but I can't send mail > and port 25 is not open. (no firewall currently running) > > I can send mail from the local machine, just not from any clients. Using > webmin if I go into the sendmail configuration, user mailboxes, and > compose a message from root, it gets sent ok. > > I can "ps -ef | grep send" and see that sendmail is running. > > If I stop MailScanner and start the Sendmail process, it says it starts, > but port 25 is still not open. I did not verify sendmail was working > before installing the other pieces. > > Best I can tell from the logs everything has started ok. > > Any suggestions for tracking down the problem? > > Thanks, > James > > > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
