Thanks for the response, unfortunately my limited knowledge on these matters leaves me at a dead end. Not sure how to change any of these items or where to go from here.
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Jason Luck wrote: > > > >grep "Port" sendmail.cf > > > >O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA > >#O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, Address=0.0.0.0 > > > > I don't know sendmail configuration, but it seems you've only told it > to listen on the local loopback port 127.0.0.1 > > > >netstat -na |grep ":25 " > > > >tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* > >LISTEN > > > And netstat confirms that. You should also see something like > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > You should be able to telnet to port 25 of this host from outside. You > can't (or at least I can't - I get a refusal to my connect > negotiation). > > > >and in the etc/hosts file > > > >IPAddress Hosts Alias > >127.0.0.1 localhost > >[##.###.##.##] falconfootball.org > > Not relevant. This only directs connects to falconfootball.org > from this machine to the given IP address. It has no effect on what's > listening on this machine for connects from the outside. > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp