Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:31:19 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: ssgriffonuser <ssgriffonuser@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 Message-ID: <20110719183119.b4def5af.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4E252C5E.8090803@gmail.com> References: <4E252C5E.8090803@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:58 -0700, ssgriffonuser wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can send > and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but I can > not receive from external networks (I receive a 550: Address rejected). > Netstat says sendmail is listening on port 25 but I cannot telnet to it. > When I do a port scan of the server, nmap does not show anything on port > 25 but does show smtp on 587. Do you have any options corresponding to port settings in /etc/rc.conf? Do you run a firewall and maybe port redirection? Do you have /etc/hosts set up properly? What does % telnet <your public IP> 25 in contradiction to % telnet <your public IP> 587 show? Are you sure your ISP isn't filtering anything "for your comfortability"? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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