Problem resolved.
By default, Sendmail does not allow relaying. This is done to make life harder for spammers. However, my mail server is behind a firewall on the gateway, and my mailserver...
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Problem resolved.
By default, Sendmail does not allow relaying. This is done to make life harder for spammers. However, my mail server is behind a firewall on the gateway, and my mailserver...
Regarding http://www.electrictoolbox.com/artic...ction-refused/, good article, but it didn't help me.
I found some sendmail and tcpd related items in inetd.conf that needed to be uncommented, but I'm still having the same problems. netstat reports port 25 is listening, but nmap is telling me that...
I made the change you recommended, but netstat tells me that port 25 is not listening.
I commented out the line, but `netstat -tnr` now shows no listening on port 25.
Additionally, on the sendmail server, `nmap -p25 localhost` is now showing a closed port 25.
From another box,...
# netstat -tna
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 ...
See attachment.
If this doesn't work, I'll paste it in a reply window...
My previous post came was an addon to a previous post, which got lost. Her is the previous post:
When performed on the Sendmail server, this what I get, and I went
ahead with a ehlo command:
...
`telnet localhost 25` followed by `ehlo localhost` yields the same result:
$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sendmail.server ESMTP...
Sendmail on Ubuntu 8.04 is supposed to open port 25, both locally and remotely. On my sendmail server, port 25 is open when viewed locally. But as seen from other Ubuntu 8.04 boxes connected to the...