Mike Kercher wrote: >Oops...my bad. Wrong section :) > >dnl # >dnl # The following causes sendmail to only listen on the IPv4 loopback >address >dnl # 127.0.0.1 and not on any other network devices. Remove the loopback >dnl # address restriction to accept email from the internet or intranet. >dnl # >DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Name=MTA')dnl > >Mike > > > >________________________________ > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] >On Behalf Of Sam Drinkard > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:03 PM > To: CentOS at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Sendmail > > > I know this is a "generic" question, but fully CentOS related. I >attempted to set up i386 v.4.1 on my primary computer at the co-located >site, and thought I had everything squared away till I discovered the >machine was refusing mail connections. AFIK, I had no firewall or other >objects blocking port 25. It has been my experience that with most arch's >and versions where sendmail is the stock mta, they always seem to work out >of the box with no tweaking at all. > > I have got to get this set up but will do it on a test machine >rather than the production machine. Between that prblem and the changes >between bind 8 and 9, I was dead in the water from the outset. Back online >with the BSD machine for the time being. > > Any reason why mail connections would be refused ? (yes sendmail >was running too) > > Thanks.. > > Sam > > > > Mike, I did that too.. because I also need the port 587 opened up due to knology blocking port 25. I'm "pretty sure" I uncommented the part about listening on 25, but will have to double check. I automatically assumed it was some type of other function blocking (refusing connects) Thanks... -- Snowman