Alastair Neil wrote: > Did you check hosts.allow and hosts.deny in /etc? > > Thanks for the suggestion. I am still somewhat noobish and those files were new to me. Thanks for teaching me. :-) Both files had only comments. They were not the source of the problem. However, I may have some progress to report. I can now successfully telnet to my system and (by hand) send mail to an account there. Hooray! I am not certain what fixed that. I did reboot after sending my email. Maybe something got reset. OTOH, external (outside of my LAN) mail servers are still not connecting to my server to send mail to the email address I have been using for testing. I now am wondering if the problem is/was with DNS. My local configuration is okay, but I am embarrassed to say that I just discovered that I had never entered an MX record where I have that domain publically hosted. (The previous incarnation of my mail server was using a different domain.) Now to wait for the new MX record to propigate and see if that will do the trick! A check of the maillog shows that the server certainly is getting connections from spammers attempting to send their trash to old domain. Debbie
