Didier Casse wrote: > Please read below: > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: > >> Didier Casse wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I just realized that sendmail on my redhat 9 can't deliver mail >>> to mailboxes outside my domain! Everytime it says something like >>> connection refused. >>> >>> PS I'm using sendmail-8.12.8-4 btw and redhat 9 as I mentionned >>> above. Thanks for the help. >>> >>> regards, >> >> Not much information here Didier - but I'll try to read your mind: >> >> You don't have a domain set up on a permanent IP at your >> house/office, and you've forgotten to set up your ISP mail server as >> a smart host. > > Yes Ed. > I don't have a permanent IP and I'm on a LAN not set by me!. When I > send email only thos [EMAIL PROTECTED] can receive it. People > outside like [EMAIL PROTECTED] can't. So how should I configure > sendmail? >
Since your on a lan "not set by you"; could be that a firewall is blocking all outbound smtp connections except from a designated MTA. I do that here just in case a virus installs its own MTA to spread its garbage. As others have pointed out, if you are unable to telnet to any external MTA, then your only option is to configure sendmail to use a smarthost on your lan. Steve Cowles -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
