etc/hosts.allow
 

Still having trouble with my email. Can anyone give me an example of the correct syntax for the above file.
I am dad@linux on my PC. Linux is the name in HOSTNAME.
Or is it better to set hosts.deny? They configure sendmail, right?
I can download email, but not send
On trying to send I get :
SMTP error
Command CONNECT
connection refused.

Which is no fun! Thanks to anyone who answers!

Peter

sounds like you are not configured to listen on the external interface, If this is sendmail then it defaults to local only and will need to have a line changed in the sendmail.cf file

this line is the default... local only

DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA

you can either delete it or change the .mc file from
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
to this
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
and rebuild sendmail.cf.

hosts.allow will do nothing unless you also use hosts.deny