i can telnet to my sendmail

[JD Doelitzsch]

-- J(K) youre a god, how did you know that part was going to work??? here is wheat happened.
[root at localhost root]# telnet 192.168.1.126 25
Trying 192.168.1.126...
Connected to 192.168.1.126.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.5/8.12.5; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:49:35 -0700
helo bentecmed.com
250 localhost.localdomain Hello [192.168.1.126], pleased to meet you
mail from: me at you.com
250 2.1.0 me at you.com... Sender ok
rcpt to: root
250 2.1.5 root... Recipient ok
data
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
.
250 2.0.0 i3GKnZtm002194 Message accepted for delivery
quit
221 2.0.0 localhost.localdomain closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root at localhost root]#

what does this mean? that I can telnet successfuly from the same computer and send a mail? is it really not listening to the right port or only accepting connections from localhost??
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday 4/16/04 3:46:20 PM
Subject: Re: i can telnet to my sendmail

>>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
>
>Break it down.  The first thing you want to check is wether
>or not sendmail is listening on port 25.  Other posts have
>already talked about that, but one more bit of advice:
>
>open a session to your Linux box running Sendmail and type
>
>tail -f /var/log/maillog
>
>this will display real-time messages that relate to mail.
>
>When you try to telnet, telnet to the inside IF:
>
>telnet 192.168.1.126 25
>
>and see if sendmail answers -- this will take your router out
>of the loop -- you might have some routing issues so we
>want to eliminate that for the time being.
>
>If it answers, try doing a test mail, right from the mail client:
>
>(hint anything prepended by # is stuff you type, anything not
>is a response from the system)
>
>#telnet 192.168.1.126 25
>
>220 yourdomain.com SMTP Sendmail (more crap that may or may not be there)
>
>#helo yourdomain.com
>
>250 yourdomain.com
>
>#mail from: me at you.com
>
>250 Ok
>
>#rcpt to: real at address.com  (please see below)
>
>250 Ok
>
>#data
>
>354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
>
>#blah blah
>#.
>
>250 Ok: queued as <SOME (important) GOBBLDEYGOOK>
>
>#quit
>
>221 Bye
>
>(in case anyone's wondering, yes, those are postfix responses,
>not sendmail -- the responses will be similar, though.)
>
>about the rcpt to: part:  use something like
>root at whatever.you.named.the.system
>or perhaps just root without an @ or domain part -- we're
>not worried about the mailer table at this point, we just
>want to make sure the system is receiving mail.
>
>root should have mail waiting for him in the local spool,
>and you should have seen some messages about the connection
>show up in the window that has the tail -f /var/log/maillog
>going in it.
>
>I'm going to stop there for now, I don't want to put too much
>into this if it's not going the right direction.
>
>--J(K)