Sendmail Stumper

[johnzan]

First off I have only been using Linux for a month so I am still feeling my way around here. I have a Redhat 8 Server that I am trying to set up as a mailserver for my home network and I think I have everything done right but still cant send or recieve mail. I followed the instructions on LinuxJournal.com and the DNS settings are fine, and I can connet to sendmail and the pop3 servers with telnet ok so they are working. But when I try to send mail I get an error that says I cant connect to the smtp server and when I send mail to the server it gets bounced back... I know I am missing something simple and obvious but I am stumped...

[cnjohnson]

In your sendmail.mc file did you comment out this line:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

I.e., did you make it

dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

Cheers--
Charles

[johnzan]

I did not comment it out, in the instructions I had it said to chance it from the loopback ip to the the ip of my interface card. this is how I have it.

IE

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.1.4, Name=MTA')dnl