As an SA, and frequent reader of many mailing lists, Id have to say Peter, your response was over-the-top. A lot of times users are confused by different protocols/apps/etc and come to these lists for help, who are we to bash it in their face? As for Mr. Clouse -> Redhat sets sendmail up by default to only listen on the loopback (127.0.0.1) to avoid users being unwilling spam robots. I would dive into /etc/mail/sendmail.cf or the sendmail.mc file (if you can find it) and really tune sendmail to your liking before turning off the loopback listening (please do the internet a favour and not turn on promisc relaying).
My $0.02 ... -John Stauffacher ++ John Stauffacher Network Administrator Chapman University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 714-628-7249 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:47 PM To: Subscribers of Qpopper Subject: Re: Qpopper failing Don Clouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Have qpopper 4.0.4 on RedHad7.3. I can telnet to the pop3 service (from the > local machine) and sign in. > > I can fetch mail from the server using a pop3 client (outlook express) but I > can't send anything. Port110 is opening and listening. > Any suggestions? Time for you to learn a 4 letter expletive - RTFM man sendmail ? You do know that POP3 isn't for _sending_ mail, it's for picking it up. There's bound to be some point-and-drooly configuration interface in Redsplat that will help. http://www.sendmail.org/ http://www.postfix.org/ http://www.exim.org/ etc etc. -- END OF LINE.
