Upon more fiddling, I find that sendmail is listening on port 25, and mailq informs me that there have been attempts at communication:
eyry:/home/hawk# mailq Mail Queue (8 requests) --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ QAA01575 8 Thu Jun 25 16:43 hawk hawk QAA01581 6 Thu Jun 25 16:43 hawk inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] QAA02340 5 Thu Jun 25 16:53 root [EMAIL PROTECTED] QAA01595 4 Thu Jun 25 16:45 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QAA02356 3 Thu Jun 25 16:55 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QAA02349 12 Thu Jun 25 16:54 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QAA02303 31263 Thu Jun 25 16:50 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8BITMIME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QAA01628 0 Thu Jun 25 16:48 hawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] eyry:/home/hawk# so why aren't they talking? mail neither goes in nor out, but attempts in either direction are duly logged. I just don't get it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]