On 4/22/06, Debbie Deutsch <fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I know you would say you have tried this but I think you should check Iptables stop the service and then also don't let Iptables start on reboot chkconfig --level 5 iptables off then test again... I just want to be sure its not Iptable..from all you have said it should be working also if you can post the log files > > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
