How I "turn-on" e-mail?

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Lunes, 19 de Febrero de 2007 22:21, Brian Truter escribió:
> > People,
> >
> > I'm on FC5.
> >
> > I'm a Linux newbie.
> >
> > I can see sendmail running on my host:
> >
> > bash sb2 root /etc/mail 61 # ps -ef|grep -i send
> > root      4606     1  0 Jan31 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
> > connections
> > smmsp     4614     1  0 Jan31 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
> > runner at 01:00:00
> > for /var/spool/clientmqueue
> > root      1302   736  0 14:25 pts/2    00:00:00 grep -i send
> > bash sb2 root /etc/mail 62 #
> >
> > And I can connect to port 25 on localhost:
> >
> > bash sb2 root /etc/sysconfig 24 # telnet sb2.local 25
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 sb2.local ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.6/8.13.6; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:55:50
> > -0800
> >
> > But...
> > I cannot connect to port 25 when I come from other hosts.
> >
> > I'm looking for some general advice on how to configure this host so
> > it will receive e-mail.
> >
> > I assume that in that advice will be some clues on how to turn on
> > port 25 to other hosts.
> >
> > How do I "turn-on" in-coming mail?
> >
> > -Bob
> > sinbuzz at sinbuzz.com
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> Sendmail is configured by default to only listen on the loopback device.
> You will need to reconfigure it to listen for connections on your network
> connection. You will need the sendmail-cf package to do this.

Don't take me wrong, but to be honest I think that sendmail is the last mail 
server a newbie should try to use and of course, to configure.
Try Postfix or Qmail
-- 
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.

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