From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 14:18:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1CB137B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D940043F85 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:18:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h25MIETb001075; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:18:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E667795.9000304@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:17:57 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Shea Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mail vs SMTP [newbieish tendencies] References: <20030305220214.DA0634E996@server2.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20030305220214.DA0634E996@server2.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Shea wrote: > Hi - I've got a FreeBSD machine from which I can use 'Mail' to send > emails to any internet email address. However when I try to use it as a > SMTP server from within the LAN the connection times out. > > I'm sure there are many places I could look for a solution but I just > wanted to check one thing. If I can use 'Mail' to send emails does this > imply that the FreeBSD box is running a SMTP server which could send mail > on behalf of clients (within the LAN)? No. Sendmail can be run in different modes. It's likely that yours is configured for local mail submission only. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message