James wrote:
>
> With some help from Jerry, I was able to narrow down a problem I am having
> with receiving mail from outside servers through Qmail. It's apparent
> that my port 25 is closed off to outside connections. I don't know how or
> why it's closed off.. TCPwrappers? Why would port 25 be closed off
> anyway. Perhaps there is a security feature in Mandrake 7.02 that closes
> this port?
>
> I was able to receive mail through sendmail before I installed qmail, so I
> am guessing qmail somehow closed port 25. How do I open that port?
Have you set up qmail-smtpd in your /etc/inetd.conf ?
(qmail-smtpd is not a standalone daemon, it needs to be called by inetd)
Eric
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