[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail auth

[Bug Hunter]

  OOPS!!  ONE MORE THING!

  Sendmail on later versions (including redhat 8), now pays attention to 
/etc/hosts.allow.  You must add

sendmail: ALL

 in hosts.allow to get sendmail to not reject.

sorry about that.

bug


On Thu, 29 May 2003, Richard Humphrey wrote:

> Heh, that is really funny. I have been getting pounded with spam on the
> email addy from my ISP. lol. They claim on their site that I can run a
> mail server. I guess I should contact them.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Bug Hunter
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail auth
> 
> 
> On Thu, 29 May 2003, Richard Humphrey wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for the long post but I am really trying to understand why this
> > isnt working.
> >
> > I have a machine set up at home (RedHat 8 fully up2date) and it is
> > running sendmail. I can receive mail just fine and send mail locally
> on
> > my LAN to both internal and external recipients. I have set up SMTP
> AUTH
> > (i think) and want to be able to send mail from outside my network
> using
> > my smtp server and authenticating against my username. I believe all
> > this is set up correctly according to this website
> > http://www.joreybump.com/code/howto/smtpauth.html. When I try to send
> an
> > email i get the following error:
> >
> > The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'xxx.homedns.org',
> > Server: 'xxx.homedns.org', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
> > Socket Error: 10054, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
> >
> 
>   telnet to port 25 on that machine.
> 
>   If it is refused, then your network provider is blocking port 25
> access
> at their routers to prevent spam.
> 
> bug