Sending email to my local server

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/19/14 08:06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to send email from my Fedora-20/KDE laptop "rose"
> to my CentOS-6.5 local home server "grover"
> (in order to run a SpamAssassin test),
> but I am finding this surprisingly difficult.
>
> I've tried with KMail and mail,
> sending email to "tim at grover", "tim at grover.localdomain",
> and various other combinations, but all fail with "recipient rejected".
> And telnet gives
>   [tim at rose ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.5 25
>   Trying 192.168.2.5...
>   telnet: connect to address 192.168.2.5: Connection refused
>
> Is there a setting I could change, or is the exercise hopeless?
>
>

Did you forget to modify /etc/mail/sendmail.mc to allow it to listen on more than the loopback address?  (and run make afterwards....you'll also have to have the sendmail-cf package installed)

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