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Post #26,918
by clkennedy
2/1/02 5:59:27 PM
2/1/02 6:01:28 PM
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New Re: Sendmail on Linux II -- the sequel - I FIGURED IT OUT.
I found the problem ... I logged into the smtp service using telnet.

using: telnet localhost 25 -- everything worked fine.
using: telnet xyz.com 25 -- I got 550 5.0.0 Access denied when I did anything.

The problem -- I hadn't removed the /etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.deny files.

Once I did it happily talked to any host that wanted to send me mail.

Duh !!

Cliff Kennedy
Collapse Edited by clkennedy Feb. 1, 2002, 06:01:28 PM EST
Re: Sendmail on Linux II -- the sequel
I found the problem ... I logged into the smtp service using telnet. using: telnet localhost 25 -- everything worked fine. using: telnet xyz.com 25 -- I got 550 5.0.0 Access denied when I did anything. The problem -- I hadn't removed the /etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.deny files. Once I did it happily talked to any host that wanted to send me mail. Duh !! Cliff Kennedy
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Post #26,919
by Another Scott
2/1/02 6:02:26 PM
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New Congrats! Thanks for letting us know the solution.
Post #27,220
by boxley
2/4/02 1:24:32 PM
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New host.allow and host.deny are there for a reason
read up on tcp wrappers and use it.
thanx,
bill
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     Sendmail on Linux II -- the sequel - I FIGURED IT OUT - (clkennedy) - (11) - Feb. 1, 2002, 06:05:01 PM EST
         Alternative to Sendmail - (nking) - (1) - Jan. 25, 2002, 03:56:07 PM EST
             Re: Alternative to Sendmail - (clkennedy) - Jan. 25, 2002, 04:00:39 PM EST
         By the way - (wharris2) - (1) - Jan. 25, 2002, 05:13:05 PM EST
             Re: By the way - (clkennedy) - Jan. 28, 2002, 12:23:16 PM EST
         Huh? - (static) - (3) - Jan. 27, 2002, 12:02:37 AM EST
             Re: Huh? - (clkennedy) - (2) - Jan. 28, 2002, 12:22:41 PM EST
                 Oh. - (static) - Jan. 29, 2002, 05:00:21 AM EST
                 On replacing sendmail - (pwhysall) - Jan. 29, 2002, 06:22:20 AM EST
         Re: Sendmail on Linux II -- the sequel - I FIGURED IT OUT. - (clkennedy) - (2) - Feb. 1, 2002, 06:01:28 PM EST
             Congrats! Thanks for letting us know the solution. -NT - (Another Scott) - Feb. 1, 2002, 06:02:26 PM EST
             host.allow and host.deny are there for a reason - (boxley) - Feb. 4, 2002, 01:24:32 PM EST

I'll even go so far as to concede that today's postliterate teenagers are already sufficiently impaired by pop culture that anything that serves to make them even more scatterbrained is rather in the way of gilding the lily, and should not be encouraged.
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