sendmail problem.

[Charles Swiger]

On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Efren Bravo wrote:
> Inside the console I type: telnet localhost 25
> end I receive answer from sendmail but from a
> remote PC I only receive "connection failed". Is
> obvious that sendmail isn't accepting external
> connections.
>
> I need ideas, where can I look for?

Unless you enable sendmail in /etc/rc.conf, it will only listen on  
localhost in order to deal with locally-generated daily email.  See / 
etc/mail/README for lots of helpful information...

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-Chuck