On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:25:46PM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Fred Dech wrote: > >my ability to receive email decided to break again. > [snip] > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection refused by olive.bsd.uchi > >cago.edu. > > It looks like sendmail is not listening on your external IP address. This > is the default config for RH72. You need to edit sendmail.mc and rebuild > sendmail.cf. The exact steps are in the archive for this list. > > Tony > hi Tony.
thanks alot. i found that thread, i just missed that one by a few days: --------i------------------------------------ Jim Bija [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 1 09:58:58 2002 Jim said: O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA sendmail only listen on that ip. To allow other to send you email change that ip to your ip ---------------------------------------------- JC!@!. i'm looking into my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, which i was busy reconstructing yesterday (i finally blew away sendmail altogether and re-installed and then upgraded via up2date) and i see: ***************************************************************** dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1 dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want dnl to accept email over the network. DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA') ***************************************************************** it appears that 7.1 (at least with sendmail-8.11.6-2.7.1) defaults to NO RECEIVE, as well. ouch! hell! they were just comments. why bother reading them? :-o. i was too busy hunting for the problem as it stared right at me. i am kicking myself as i type <ouch! ouch!>. --fred _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
