[ILUG] very wierd sendmail problem

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:05:07AM +0100, John P. Looney mentioned:
>  This is a wierd one. I've been using sendmail on my PLD box for the last
> four weeks. The day before yesterday, it silently (from an MUA
> perspective) stopped working.
 
 Turned out someone in Antefacto changed the NIS "services" file to have
smtp to be port 465, instead of 25. Which is why I could telnet to port
25, but sendmail couldn't....because it uses "smtp", rather than "25".

 Why I oughtta...

Kate

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