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

impulse() · 08-15-2006, 04:24 PM

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,

w3bd3vil · 08-15-2006, 08:09 PM

sendmail binds only for localhost, you need to change that.

Quote:

vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

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.

Quote:

m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
service sendmail restart

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.

impulse() · 08-16-2006, 04:01 AM

That's brilliant mate.

Thanx for the advice.