init script on openSuSE problem

[Kevin Miller]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Andrey V. Dudarev wrote on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:29:22 +0400:
> 
>>> Do your sendmail listen on the loopback interface/address? yes
> 
> Well, have you ever tried to start sendmail alone without MailScanner
> (so, with the sendmail init script)? I bet that you get the same
> problem. It's not correctly configured or there is a firewall
> blocking the connect. 
> 
>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*
>> LISTEN      3418/sendmail: acce
> 
> It's listening on all interfaces, not just loopback. Have you verified
> that you cannot connect to other interfaces either? (Just to be sure
> it's not an obscure problem affecting only loopback.)
> SuSE usually comes preconfigured so sendmail listens only on
> loopback, but this doesn't seem to be your problem here. So, as said
> above, it's either a firewall or a sendmail misconfiguration. To
> troubleshoot this set the Log Level in sendmail to 14 and start it by
> it's own and check the mail log.

It's been a while, but I think he needs to go to /etc/sysconfig/mail (or
thereabouts) and set sendmail to listen to remote connections.  By
default it's set to only listen to localhost...


...Kevin
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