Sendmail on FBSD server wont connect to remote user.

[Ahmad Arafat Abdullah]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "admin at hdk5.com" <admin at hdk5.com>
> To: "FreeBSD Users Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Sendmail on FBSD server wont connect to remote user.
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:57:27 -1000
> 
> 
> Aloha Questions list,
> 
> I have been trying to setup Sendmail on a server box.
> FreeBSD 6.1 HP Pentium II 300 CPU 686
> 
> After many attempts I am down to this one error.
> 
> Error:
> Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server 
> mahalo.internetohana.org responded:
> Password supplied for admin at internetohana.org is incorrect.
> 
> 
> I have 2 user accounts for test on this swever. I can ping and 
> telnet into ports 25 and 110 and I get the proper responses from 
> these users.
> 
> The 2 user accounts are rejected as per the error when I try to 
> connect from a mail agent (Mozilla or Thunderbird) from another box 
> on a different inet. (Also FreeBSD 4.11 running for several years.)
> 
> 
> The server is setup with send mail SMTP and qpopper for Pop3. There 
> is nothing else on this box.
> 
> Do I have to create a password file other than the FreeBSD  
> /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd
> to get this to work.
> 
> My previous attempts with Postfix and Dovecot did not get this far.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii
> 
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I'm leaving sendmail long ago since I'm migrated to Postfix..
but however as i still remember, default sendmail installation
is just listening to localhost.

so u need to alter the *.cf file ( in /etc/mail/ )..

# SMTP client options
O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, Address=0.0.0.0

by default this line will be commented out ( with # or dnl ) or just listen to localhost

previously I faced this prob with old RedHat 7.x..

anyone who know this, maybe can correct me if I'm wrong

TQ







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