have you configured Sendmail to use all interfaces? by default it only functions on the loopback interface (so it will be able to send/receive mail itself, but other computers on the network can't).
What distro are you running? Suse had a gui option for this in the SysConfig file/routines. I didn't have to worry about this with Red Hat (mainly cuz I used Postfix instead). With regards to your DNS, if you ping your hostname, does it get resolved to the correct address? If so, then the DNS issues are not the problem. There's also a config setting for what domains you will process mail for - localhost should be there, as well as your domain name. You shouldn't have to configure anything to receive mail from other domains. HTH. Shawn (btw, best of luck, and I don't think anyone has ever said I've inspired them... thanks! <grins>) -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:39 PM To: CLUG TALK Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Sendmail Thanks again for your help guys. If I'm understanding you correctly the problem may be that I'm trying to access the server from a machine on my LAN. I am only doing this for testing purposes, and will not need to do it for anything else. I'm going to get someone from the outside world to try telneting into those ports. If that works I will have someone setup a mail client on the outside world and see if that works. I'll get back to you on this :-) Jesse -- Jesse Kline, RHCT http://www3.telus.net/public/klinej/resume.html
