Re: sendmail on debian

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Steven Jones wrote:

> I have just built a sendmail box with the sarge verion of Debian, I find it is refusing connections inward but send mail out correctly. How can I get the server to accept incoming mail?
> 
> I have put lines into access with,
> 
> Connect:localhost               RELAY
> Connect:130.195                 RELAY
> Connect:vuw.ac.xx               RELAY

add those things to teh local-host-names

/etc/mail/local-host-names ( aka sendmail.cw )
	localhost
	localhost.localdomain
	vuw.ac.xx

restart sendmail

rest of the silly config files
	linux-sec.net/Mail/Sendmail

if you have local firewall, make sure port25 is open

c ya
alvin