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Re: Pop working, sendmail acting strange.



This one time, at band camp, Scott Mohnkern said:
> Well, I've almost got everything running after a system crash.
> 
> Pop is working now
> 
> However, sendmail will only take connections if you telnet to localhost 
> or 127.0.0.1, if you use the ip address, or the hostname, it refuses the 
> connection.
> 
> I don't have the firewall in place, so it can't be that,
> 
> and, i've put the domain name and host name in the local tables for 
> sendmail.

I assume that sendmail is only listening on localhost.  Use netstat to
confirm.  If this is the case, you'll need to instruct sendmail to
listen on the IP addresses you would like it to listen on.
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