i can telnet to my sendmail

[Rob Freeman]

No, just telnet to port 25 and see if it is responding:

telnet ipaddress 25

Does anything answer?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michele Neylon" <michele at BLACKNIGHTSOLUTIONS.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: i can telnet to my sendmail


> Telnet is bad.. use SSH
>
> Do you have physical access to the machine?
> Do you have a non-root account with sudo access?
> At 20:02 16/04/2004, you wrote:
> >im not sure where to set up a login username or password on the server. I
> >telnet'd from my windows box to the linux sendmail box and it responds
> >"Login:" I tried using my root password but it wont work.
> >
> >-JD
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> >Behalf Of Rob Freeman
> >Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:51 AM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Re: i can telnet to my sendmail
> >
> >
> >Not sure where to set it up on the server or on the client?
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "JD" <jd at BENTECMED.COM>
> >To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:55 PM
> >Subject: i can telnet to my sendmail
> >
> >
> > > I can telnet to my sendmail computer but im not sure where to set up
my
> > > username and password.
>
>
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