i can telnet to my sendmail

[JD]

Im sorry if my questions sound so cryptic, its just that everytime I find
something out with senmail, 3 other issues pop up and its hard to keep track
of. Rob suggested to me to try to telnet to port 25 to see if my sendmail is
really listening on that port, because it does not seem as if sendmail, and
thus mailscanner is picking up any mail at all when I NAT port 25 to the
linux/mailscanner box. I realize now I did it backwards, I should have tried
to set sendmail up first instead of jumping on mailscanner like a cat in
heat. Now im trying to work backwards and set up a working sendmail server.
when i netstat -nl it appears to be lsitening on 192.168.1.126:25 which it
good because thats where I have NAT pointing to. I also added bentecmed.com,
mail.bentecmed.com and 192.168 to my access > access.db file as a RELAY so
that should be fine. as far as I understand those are the two main settings
on sendmail. one other thing I tried just to be sure is add sendmail:ALL in
the host.allow file. Im running redhat 8 and now im not even sure how to
check that it has recieved any mail. I know for sure though that when I have
mailscanner running that it is not routing messages to my windows email
server via the mailertable feature because when I check mail on that server
I havent recieved any of my test messages.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Jason Balicki
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:05 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: i can telnet to my sendmail


>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.

Dude, what exactly are you trying to accomplish?

We love the noobs here, we really do, but you've got to give a
little to get a little.  The information you've provided doesn't
help us help you.

Give us some background information, what is it that you're
trying to accomplish?  Keep in mind that this list is specificaly
for MailScanner issues (http://www.mailscanner.info) and is not
a general MTA help list.  We're more than happy to go out of
our way to answer your questions, but the question you asked
is sort of like asking a doctor: "Hey Doc, something hurts,
can you guess what?"

Having said that:

1) most Linux installations don't have a telnet server on by
default these days, and one of the first things you should
do is switch to ssh.

2) you usually can't connect directly to a box via telnet
as root.  You usually have to connect as a normal user,
then su to root.

3) if you haven't set up a normal user yet, do it at the
console.

4) if you don't have console access, call whoever does.

5) if you can't do that, you're either screwed or screwing
with us. :)

HTH,

--J(K)