[ILUG] Sendmail

[Donncha O Caoimh]

I get the feeling this should be a FAQ.. Seems to be a lot of confusion
caused by the "firewall" settings in RH7.1 :|

What's more than likely happening is you set the firewall setting too
high. I have RH7.1 running at home but never took the trouble to fiddle
with their firewall levels as it's not connected directly to the
Internet.. It might be something in linuxconf, or try run
/usr/sbin/setup too.

Oh, and if you need help configuring Sendmail go here:
http://cork.linux.ie/projects/install-sendmail/
(Look lads - had to mention it didn't I?:)

Donncha.

jgmurphy wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
>                 I'm new to Linux and have just installed RedHat 7.1.  Installation appeared to go fine however I need to run an application that requires Sendmail.
> 
> Sendmail is running but I can't receive mail.  I can telnet to port 25 from localhost but not from another machine.
> 
> If I use telnet machinename.domain.ie 25 I get connection refused however, if I telnet localhost 25 I get connected.  It appears to be binding to localhost and not the NIC.