i can telnet to my sendmail {Scanned}

[David Shaw]

JD, just use a email client like Outlook express. When you setup the account
use the sendmail's IP address for the SMTP setting. Then try to send an email
out. If to work great if not it will give you an error. Or what is the public
IP address and I will telnet to it for you? Up to you.

David



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---------- Original Message -----------
From: JD <jd at BENTECMED.COM>
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:33:05 -0700
Subject: Re: i can telnet to my sendmail {Scanned}

> 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)
>
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