i can telnet to my sendmail {Scanned}

[David Shaw]

Things to check:

Is sendmail running?
ps aux | grep sendmail

Is the port open?
nmap <IP Address>

Check that sendmail is listening on the interface you want.
You need to check the sendmail.cf file.
Look for the line:
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
you can add a 2nd line.
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=<PUT YOUR IP ADDRESS HERE>, Name=MTA

Restart MailScanner.

David

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: JD <jd at BENTECMED.COM>
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:47:55 -0700
Subject: Re: i can telnet to my sendmail {Scanned}

> when I try telneting to 192.168.1.126 25 it gives me a connection failed
> you were right, does this mean it really isnt listening on the
> correct port?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:24 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: i can telnet to my sendmail
>
> At 04:22 PM 4/16/2004, JD wrote:
> >yeah it answers, it just says login:
>
> JD are you sure you followed the directions exactly? It sounds like you
> didn't put the 25 after the ip address.
>
> login: is the prompt from a telnet server, which is on port 23.
> Unless you specify a port number telnet will go there.
>
> If you connect to a sendmail server you should see something like this:
>
> telnet xanadu.evi-inc.com 25
>
> 220 xanadu.evi-inc.com ESMTP Sendmail *.**.*/*.**.*; Fri, 16 Apr 2004
> 15:14:33 -0400
>
> (note that if you try this to my mailserver xanadu will answer you
> but you'll get a lot more things converted to **'s than the above.
> However, the line will always start with 220)
>
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