[Mailman-Users] Confirmation and sent messages not reachingend-user

[Jason Luck]

Thanks for the response, unfortunately my limited knowledge on these 
matters leaves me at a dead end.  Not sure how to change any of these 
items or where to go from here.

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Jason Luck wrote:
> >
> >grep "Port" sendmail.cf
> >
> >O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
> >#O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, Address=0.0.0.0
> 
> 
> 
> I don't know sendmail configuration, but it seems you've only told it
> to listen on the local loopback port 127.0.0.1
> 
> 
> >netstat -na |grep ":25 "
> >
> >tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25                0.0.0.0:*                   
> >LISTEN
> 
> 
> And netstat confirms that. You should also see something like
> 
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25                0.0.0.0:*    LISTEN
> 
> You should be able to telnet to port 25 of this host from outside. You
> can't (or at least I can't - I get a refusal to my connect
> negotiation).
> 
> 
> >and in the etc/hosts file
> >
> >IPAddress       Hosts           Alias
> >127.0.0.1       localhost
> >[##.###.##.##]    falconfootball.org
> 
> Not relevant. This only directs connects to falconfootball.org
> from this machine to the given IP address. It has no effect on what's
> listening on this machine for connects from the outside.
> 
>