Re: Email Question

[<karlp ourldsfamily com>]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Mugleston, Brad wrote:

>Karl, Kenneth and Rick
>
>This is what I've got/done
>
>Linux box
>192.168.0.1 linux.myhome.net

Put win95 box in /etc/hosts, too. That may solve the "hanging" right off
because sendmail requires reverse DNS lookup to work.

>
>Win95 box
>192.168.0.2
>
>Installed IMAP on RH 7.2
>telnet localhost 110 - connected
>telnet localhost 143 - connected

Did they connect with their version number information?

>
>Commented out this line in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
>DAEMON_OPTIONS('Port=smpt,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

I never comment out that line, I just remove ,Addr=127.0.0.1 and leave the
rest. That seems to work fine.

>
>then ran m4 command and restarted sendmail
>
>Did not have an /etc/xinetd.d/imapd to change Disable from yes to no but
>/etc/xinetd.d/imap is not Disabled (don't know if that means anything but
>thought I'd throw it in)

I just run setup as root and then select system services and scroll through
the list and see what the settings are there. After, you have to restart
xinetd (/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart)

>
>changed /etc/hosts.all

you meant hosts.allow?

>
>ALL:192.168.0.1.
>sendmail:ALL

I put spaces after the : marks. Does that matter?

>
>changed /etc/mail/access
>
>192.168.0.1 RELAY
>myhome.net RELAY

Shouldn't it be .myhome.net to allow for win95pc.myhome.net in DNS lookups?

>
>then in the /etc/mail directory ran make
>
>On the Win95 box
>Outlook - tools - services - internet
>
>smpt - tried everything I could think of including
>	linux.myhome.net
>	myhome.net
>	smpt.myhome.net
>	smpt.linux.myhome.net
>	jimi.hendrix
>
>POP - linux.myhome.net

So, try just telneting from the PC:

telnet linux.myhome.net 25
telnet linux.myhome.net 110
telnet linux.myhome.net 143

and if you can't even attach, then build a hosts file, if you aren't using
DNS cache-only server on linux.myhome.net (that's another issue, however).

>
>I can get mail from my Linux box to my windows box but I get a bad smpt
>server error - well not from jimi.hendrix it just kind of sits there and
>sits there....

This, again, sounds like a DNS problem for reverse lookups.

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>
>Thanks

Your'e welcome, but save the thanks until something I say works... 8^}

>
>Brad

Karl

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