by Hi,
We just got a dedicated server that for now is running fine for
all our purposes except for the e-mail. The machine has RedHat 7.2
installed.
For the purpose of this message, I'm going to use www.example.com
as the name of that server (not being sure if sendmail is properly
configured, I don't want to write an open invitation to hackers
into our machine :-))
So, the web hosters (the guys that have the machine and did the
setup) already created the MX record in their DNS -- in fact,
if I do ping mail.example.com, the machine responds, and the
IP is the same IP as www.example.com
I followed the RedHat-ISP-Setup-HOWTO on www.linux.org; they
suggest that sendmail and the popper (I'm using the one they
recommend, Qualcomm's popper -- current version is 4.0.4) be
run via xinetd, instead of directly through the init scripts
(e.g., /etc/init.d/sendmail)
I did the changes in the sendmail.cf file, also in sendmail.cw,
where I put:
example.com
mail.example.com
www.example.com
Then I restart xinetd (running /etc/init.d/xinetd restart), but
no effect: I can't connect, neither to port 25, nor port 110.
I tried from the same host, from other hosts, all of these
commands:
telnet mail.example.com 25
telnet example.com 25
telnet www.example.com 25
(and same thing for port 110), but nothing -- I get connection
refused in every single case.
Any kind sould could point out what I'm missing, or what I
may be doing wrong? Any pointers to "easy-to-understand"
documentation would be appreciated (I know easy-to-understand
is a relative term... Let's say that I found that section of
the ISP-Setup-RedHat-HOWTO very easy to understand... Well,
maybe I did *not* understand it? :-))
Thanks in advance !!!
Carlos
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