Hi,

I am trying to connect to sendmail 8.12.5 running on a RH9 box. Sendmail is running and i can connect like

[root@goran /]# telnet localhost 25

from the machine that sendmail is on, but not like

[root@goran /]# telnet 192.168.1.55 25

or by using the domain name (I am running a name server) from the machine that sendmail is on, or from another machine.

This is not a firewall issue, as the local firewall has been turned off. I can connect to the machine via ssh and smb.

Is there some sort of other option that sendmail uses to reject connections, or maybe some thing I could put in hosts.*? The hosts files are empty right now.

Thanks in advance for your help.

-M

Welcome to LQ.

Check that sendmail is bound to all devices and not just the loopback:
netstat -nlp

Also check your firewall rules:
iptables -L

netstat -nlp says, among other things:

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 631/sendmail: accep

The daemon accepts connections from localhost, but not through the network.

As for iptables -L, the output is

[root@goran /]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

The firewall is not running, and all other services that are on will accept connections.

Thanks again for the fast reply.

You are only listening for connections on the loopback - you will need to edit your sendmail.mc file and "dnl" the line refering to the loopback then reload your sendmail config and the sendmail daemon.