RE: Pop working, sendmail acting strange.

["Tim Warnock" <timoid@getonit.net.au>]

> 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.

Sounds like sendmail is only listening on 127.0.0.1

Confirm by something like:

netstat -nap | grep 25

If it looks something like this:
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN     -

Then its only listening on localhost.

To fix see /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Thanks
Tim Warnock

ISP Technical Manager
getonit internet
1300 88 00 97
timoid (at) getonit.net.au