Thank you everyone!
sendmail.mc was indeed restricted to 127.0.0.1.
I have changed the DAEMON_OPTIONS line and restarted sendmail.
I can now connect to the service with 'telnet phoenix 25' from my desktop.
However... (there is always a 'however', isn't there )-;
Mails to this server from outside get bounced with 'relaying denied'. This
happens sending both from GMail and from a remote server ssh session on a
different system. The latter gives more info:
:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<qg@???>
(reason: 550 5.7.1 <qg@???>... Relaying denied)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to victor.shacknet.nu.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.7.1 <qg@???>... Relaying denied
550 5.1.1 <qg@???>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
( victor.shacknet.nu is a free dynamic DNS mapping from dyndns.com which
currently points to 81.109.243.248. Sending mail direct to qg@that IP has
the same result.)
I will Google for 'relaying denied' before crying for help!
thanks
victor
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best regards,
Victor Churchill,
Bournemouth
