From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 06:51:29 2003 Return-Path: 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 F0A4216A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1784D43F3F for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20031117145120012004a60ie>; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:51:25 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E855370; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:05:28 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: faisal gillani References: <20031115194007.83094.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 16 Nov 2003 13:05:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031115194007.83094.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <44islkur2x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT : problems accessing sendmail from LAN X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:51:30 -0000 faisal gillani writes: > Well i have a PC running sendmail & pop3 deamon . when > i try to access sendmail & pop3 services from locally > "on the same pc"i am sucessful . but when i try to > access smtp services of sendmail from over lan i can > find it .. i mean the PC dont have any firewall > installed .. Are you *sure* there's no firewall running on that machine? > when i port scan it from network i can see pop3 port > open but sendmail smtp port isnt open .. what can be > wrong ? i dont understand .. sendmail services arent > accesable. Are you sure there's no firewall in between? ISPs often filter out SMTP, for example.