On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:04:56PM +0000, Mike Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 12 January 2004 17:41, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > On a recent installation of gentoo, the command > > > > telnet localhost > > > > returns > > > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > telnet: unable to connect to remote host: connection refused > > > > This problem seems to be pertinent to another problem I am > > having in configuring sendmail. > > Nope, the error you're getting is a good thing, and nothing to do with > sendmail. > All it means is you don't have a telnet daemon running.
Telnet is evil, at least the server, the protocol is quite useful (or you can use netcat). Anyway, if you're looking at testing sendmail you have to telnet to the specific port that it's listening on, in this case, 25. So for you running: telnet localhost 25 Would let you know if sendmail is listening or not. -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
