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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:36:00 -0500
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Efren Bravo <efrenba@yahoo.es>
Cc:        freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sendmail problem.
Message-ID:  <39D3C1CC-1F2A-46C2-9D0C-C5938150FD12@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060324192641.20542.qmail@web25515.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060324192641.20542.qmail@web25515.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Efren Bravo wrote:
> Inside the console I type: telnet localhost 25
> end I receive answer from sendmail but from a
> remote PC I only receive "connection failed". Is
> obvious that sendmail isn't accepting external
> connections.
>
> I need ideas, where can I look for?

Unless you enable sendmail in /etc/rc.conf, it will only listen on  
localhost in order to deal with locally-generated daily email.  See / 
etc/mail/README for lots of helpful information...

-- 
-Chuck




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