[Sussex] sendmail prob

[Steve Dobson]

Hi Gareth

On 10 June 2003 at 11:42 Gareth Ablett wrote:
> <snip> I have look at the mail logs and they don't even have 
> anything in that connects to the mail coming in.
> 
> one thing I did get was a permission denied email from Mailer Daemon.
>  
> > Have you tried using "telnet <box> 25" to talk SMTP to sendmail and see
> > what it's reporting.
> 
> When I telneted to it I just connected in no problems.
> 
> > You may even try falling back to running sendmail with "-bt" which runs
> > sendmail in address test mode. This mode reads addresses and shows the
> > steps in parsing; it is used for debugging configuration tables.
> 
> Already tried this aswell.

If you're seeing no logs, and local connections are okay then maybe the
problem is the address of the machine.

Is DNS correctly configured?

Can you go to the "remote" machine and try telneting from there?

Steve