Re[2]: [SM-USERS] Port 25 refusing connections

[D u n c a n <dr...@mw...>]

Hie Evan,

This is what i call hitting the nail on the head !
Thanks mate , your presence surely does reduce suicide attempts !


Dunccs

Friday, February 4, 2005, 10:00:00 AM, you wrote:

> Duncan

> We really are going to need more information than that - what version of
> linux/bsd/solaris/hpux/aix/windows are you running? What email system are
> you running?

> At a guess I would say you are running some version of Redhat probably 8
> or 9 and are using sendmail as your email software and if you edit your
> sendmail.cf file and do a search for 127.0.0.1 your will find it is linked
> to an option called DaemonPortOptions - make a backup of the sendmail.cf
> file and then make the DaemonPortOptions file looks the same as the line
> below.

> O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA

> And all wshould be fine.
> In the event of this not working send me the info above as well as the
> output of iptables -L -v and I will see if I can help.

> Evan

> P.S. This is not a squirrelmail problem - may I suggest you join glug
> (Gauteng Linux User Group - www.glug.co.za) as we are slightly closer to
> you here in the south.



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