telnet to smtp port is refused

[Scott Silva]

Try this command
ls -alR /etc |grep sendmail.cf
you should see only one sendmail.cf  listed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ugo Bellavance" <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: telnet to smtp port is refused


Bayardo Rivas wrote:

> You asked me about the quantity of sendmail.cf files i am using, I
> supposed to be using only one sendmail.cf
>
>
> And the results for netstat -lnp | grep 25 when Mailscanner is on:
>
> # netstat -lnp | grep 25
>
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      1555/sendmail: acce
> And the results for netstat -lnp | grep 25 when ONLY SENDMAIL is on:
>
> # netstat -lnp | grep 25
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      1846/sendmail: acce

There is obviously a problem with your config.  When running with
MailScanner, sendmail only listens on your loopback address 127.0.0.1,
while it listens to all interfaces when started as standalone.

I don't know exactly where to look, but your sendmail gets an option at
MailScanner startup that is different from what you've got as
standalone.  Maybe examine /etc/init.d/MailScanner and search for "OAddr="

I never worked on suse, so this is really the best I can do.

Hope this helps.

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