Re: hi

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

Mike Gatton wrote:

>         I Would like to find a way to send eMail using my Linux box... My POP3
> server is working just fine, and when I receive eMail (via fetchmail),
> sendmail routes all ok. When I attempt to send mail I get the message
> 'connection refused'.  This only occurrs when I tell my eMail program
> (Eudora) that the SMTP server is my linux box. As it stands now, the only
> way to send eMail internally is to send it to an external server and wait
> for fetchmail to bring it back down.. This is quite a Kludge considering
> what Linux has accomplished so far. I was wondering if anyone could offer
> some suggestion as to the source of this problem.... I have attempted to
> run sendmail -q10m (equiv to mailq). I have read as many man pages as my
> eyes will allow on this. I would like to send local eMail locally if at all
> possible <grin>

Check your sendmail config, specifically /etc/mail/*_allow.  Recent sendmail
doesn't relay by default; you have to tell it when you want it to relay and who
you want it to relay for.  This is for spam prevention.



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