Re: [Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Victor Churchill
That's great Vic. "It Works!" Thanks for your patience. victor -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Vic
> Mails to this server from outside get bounced with 'relaying denied'. You haven't told sendmail which domains it should receive. Add the necessary domain in /etc/mail/local-host-names. You'll probably have to restart sendmail. Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interfa

Re: [Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Victor Churchill
Thank you everyone! sendmail.mc was indeed restricted to 127.0.0.1. I have changed the DAEMON_OPTIONS line and restarted sendmail. I can now connect to the service with 'telnet phoenix 25' from my desktop. However... (there is always a 'however', isn't there )-; Mails to this server from outside

Re: [Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Jack Knight
On 19 January 2011 11:27, Victor Churchill wrote: > Hi, > > I have a pretty clean (*) install of Centos on a server in my home network > at the mo. It is destined to go out to NewNet eventually but that's another > story. > > It needs to be able to receive and process emails - a user account on th

Re: [Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Vic
> I'm not a sendmail expert but you need to either be bound to every > address 0.0.0.0 or the external IP to be able to see the service. That's done in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc - look for the line DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl Take out the "Addr=127.0.0.1," clause and rem

Re: [Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 19/01/2011 11:27, Victor Churchill wrote: victor@ss07:~$ telnet phoenix 25 Trying 192.168.11.199... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused I haven't done anything explicit to do with firewalling on the phoenix server. I can see other services the server is running such

Re: [Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Chris Dennis
On 19/01/11 11:27, Victor Churchill wrote: Hi, I have a pretty clean (*) install of Centos on a server in my home network at the mo. It is destined to go out to NewNet eventually but that's another story. It needs to be able to receive and process emails - a user account on this machine has som

Re: [Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Vic
> I haven't done anything explicit to do with firewalling on the phoenix > server. You've probably got port 25 set to being refused, then. Have a look at /etc/sysconfig/iptables. Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ha

[Hampshire] Connection refused even though Sendmail is running

2011-01-19 Thread Victor Churchill
Hi, I have a pretty clean (*) install of Centos on a server in my home network at the mo. It is destined to go out to NewNet eventually but that's another story. It needs to be able to receive and process emails - a user account on this machine has some procmail scripts that will handle this. Se