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Subject: Re: Firewall + Sendmail...how to make them happy...
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Hi JP,

JP wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just got my firewall up and running. 
> Everything is running great except for inbound
> sendmail connections.  It appears my firewall is
> blocking port 25 traffic.  I can telnet localhost 25
> and it works fine internally.  From the outside world,
> all I get is a connection refused.  Can someone tell
> me what I am doing wrong please.  Here is a copy of my
> firewall config file:

did you try `netstat -an |grep -i list` ? if there is an 127.0.0.1:25 
listening then only localhost is listening on the sendmail interface. I 
though that it was a setting in the default install.
You should look for freebsd.mc and edit the listen settings there and 
build a new cf file...

Cheers


Kind regards,

Remko Lodder
Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
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