On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:56:30 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche <pieter.don...@ua.ac.be> wrote:
> On FreeBSD 7, out of the box, one can send mail to internet destinations > and can send mail locally from one user to another user on the same > FreeeBSD machine > > But it can't receive mail from internet as it appears .. > > A sendmail is running > freebsd7box># ps -jaxw | grep sendmail > smmsp 26649 1 26649 26649 0 Is ?? 0:00.00 sendmail: Queue > run...@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) > root 26651 1 26651 26651 0 Ss ?? 0:00.04 sendmail: accepting > connections (sendmail) > > The machine is listening on port 25 > freebsd7box># netstat -na | grep 25 > tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.25 *.* LISTEN sendmail is only listening on localhost. > But telnettting the freebsd box with its own ip address at port 25 > from the root account of the box > freebsd7box># telnet 143.129.75.1 25 > Trying 143.129.75.1... > telnet: connect to address 143.129.75.1: Connection refused sendmail is not listening on that address. eg here, when quiet: % netstat -an | grep 25 tcp4 0 0 *.25 *.* LISTEN % sockstat -4 | grep :25 root sendmail 781 3 tcp4 *:25 *:* > The only thing that works is > freebsd7box># telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > ... That'd be right; it needs to be also listening on an external interface address to receive mail from outside this box .. > How do I make the FreeBSD7 box accept connections to port 25 from all of the > internet ?? % grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable="YES" cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
