thanks for that, that was something I'd forgotten to check, went to shields up at GRC.com and the port probe showed the port open and listening, so firewall rule were ok too.
It seemed I had a problem somewhere else in the configuration, I gave up looking for it when I discovered "install-sendmail" a small perl script available at freshmeat.net, that sets up sendmail with just a few simple questions (a must for the newbie) although I didn't find out what the problem was, everything everything is fine and dandy now. thank you matt > > Make sure sendmail is listening on the external port.. after starting > sendmail, do a netstat -l. You should see it listening on port 25. > > If it isn't, check the config in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Redhat ships it > with 'listen on external port' turned off. > > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Matt & Penny Edmonds wrote: > > <cut> > > > > My problem is that I can mail locally no problems even using my DYNDNS > > domain e.g [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the same machine but when I try to send > > mail through my isp to this machine it doesn't work (the mail goes without > > any error) > > > -- > Richard Ames > linsup.com, Sydney, Australia > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linsup.com > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
