[lug] sendmail not accepting

[Blaine Berger]

netstat -a | more and if you see that sendmail is only listening on port 25
for localhost.localdomain then double check your DaemonPortOptions settings
in /etc/sendmail.cf

--
Blaine

At 11:01 AM 10/31/01 -0700, Gary Hodges wrote:
>Chip Atkinson wrote:
>
>> Can you ping the IP address of space?
>
>Yes.
>
>> You should verify that the IP address is the IP address of the machine
>> that you are on.  Use ifconfig eth0 (assuming only one ethernet card).
>
>~>/sbin/ifconfig eth0
>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:5A:67:86:39
>          inet addr:140.172.144.174  Bcast:140.172.144.255
>Mask:255.255.255.0
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>          RX bytes:92449 (90.2 Kb)  TX bytes:16343 (15.9 Kb)
>          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000
>
>
>Just for kicks...
>
>~>ps auxw | grep sendmail
>root       965  0.0  0.3  5300 1996 ?        S    10:55   0:00 sendmail:
>accepting connections
>
>Cheers,
>Gary
>
>
>> Gary Hodges wrote:
>>
>> > On a mostly fresh install of RH 7.2 I'm unable to send email to this
>> > machine.  I can send mail from this machine to this machine, just not
>> > from another machine.  If I run the following command :
>> >
>> > ~>telnet localhost 25
>> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> > Connected to localhost.
>> > Escape character is '^]'.
>> > 220 space.srrb.noaa.gov ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Wed, 31 Oct 2001
>> > 10:34:06 -0700
>> >
>> > If I run:
>> > ~>telnet space 25
>> > Trying 140.172.144.174...
>> > telnet: connect to address 140.172.144.174: Connection refused
>> >
>> > So I guess sendmail is working, but for some reason it is not accepting
>> > connections to the machine name.  I feel like it must be how I've set up
>> > networking, but I've tried a bunch of different things there with no
>> > luck.  I have also tried the "no firewall" setting.
>
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