Fedora 5. Can't connect to Sendmail or Dovecot outside internet network
 

My Sendmail & Dovecot sevices are running fine as I can telnet to them on the local machine. I have port forwarding setup properly as I have tested it on different ports. But when I come to telnet to port 25 or 110 from another connection it refuses the connection.
When I installed Fedora I disabled firewall so I don't think it's that. Is there something I have to alter in the /etc/hosts.allow file?

Regards,

sendmail binds only for localhost, you need to change that.
search for the line which is making sendmail bind to 127.0.0.1 (in vi just do /127.0.0.1 ), you need to add dnl to that line and then update your sendmail conf file.
and in /etc/dovecot.conf, there is a line where it says the protocols you are serving, the line is hashed, remove the hash and restart dovecot.

That's brilliant mate.

Thanx for the advice.