[plug] Sendmail on RH 8.0- accepting connections

[Mark O'Shea]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Tim Bowden wrote:
> >
> I had found that and dnl'd it.  I don't know anything about netstat but
> from what I can tell from the netstat -nl listing I posted earlier it
> should be accepting connections from anywhere.  Can anyone confirm/ deny
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Bowden
>
Yes, it should be.  Also looking back you said that another provider got
as far as sending a MAIL FROM, which does imply a connection.  But if you
are worried just try telnetting from outside to port 25. If you get a
connection then it is accepting connections.  It might just be not
accepting mail.

Try:
telnet ***.***.***.*** 25
then type:
HELO testing.test.com
MAIL FROM:test at test.com
RCPT TO:your at ddress
DATA
.

And see where it complains (this is the SMTP protocol that your mail agent
uses)

I hope this helps.

-- 
Mark O'Shea
System Administrator
mark at tarbuck.nosignal.org