RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

["Matthew Sherborne" <MatthewS@softtech.co.nz>]

Have you tried typing

	telnet 127.0.0.1 25

? Maybe the IP is wrong?

Matthew Sherborne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul McHale [mailto:pmchale@doubleesolutions.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2000 4:39 p.m.
> To: kmself@ix.netcom.com; Debian-User; MatthewS@softtech.co.nz
> Subject: RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused
>
>
> > The server IP_NUM isn't running SMTP ?
> > There is a firewall between your host and IP_NUM ?
> > You're not connected to the same network ?
>
> > The host is refusing your connection.  It's either IP filtered, denied
> > through /etc/hosts.allow or equivalent for the system, or there is no
> > SMTP server running.
>
> Additional information in response.  When I do the telnet, it is from the
> machine running the mailserver so networking and firewalls shouldn't
> interfere.  I can ping out from the machine.  PS shows sendmail is running
> with the following message:
>
> Sendmail: Rejecting connection on port 25 : min free: 100
>
> hosts.allow has "sendmail: all".  IP filtering I'm not sure about.
>