On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 07:41, Mark Lane wrote:
> Well for starters you need to make sure that pop3 is turned on in
> xinetd. Then make sure your firewall isn't blocking requests. Also make
> sure you hosts.allow and hosts.deny files are setup to allow pop3 from
> the right computers and deny from the other computers.

Pop3 is turned on in xinetd, and I can receive mail from the localhost.
I set the firewall on the mail server to allow connection from tcp ports
25 and 110. I still cannot access it from the outside even when I turn
off iptables, so I don't think that's the problem. I also have the
firewall on my router forwarding tcp ports 25 and 110 to the mail
server. Regarding the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files, will I have to
explicitly allow the domains for everyone that I want to use the server?

> SMTP relaying is a little more complicated. Your distro's sendmail
> package will come with relaying off for everyone but local host. You
> will need to add your client machines or private network to the email
> servers list of relayed hosts.
> 
> Relaying is handled by the access file generally found in /etc/mail.
> Once you have made changes to access file you need to make a new
> access.db file, the method of which escapes me at this time. Then
> restart sendmail.

Again will I have to get hostnames for everyone using the server and add
them to the hosts.allow, relaying hosts and the /etc/mail/access file?

Thanks for your help,

Jesse
-- 
Jesse Kline, RHCT
http://www3.telus.net/public/klinej/resume.html

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