Re: Troubleshooting SMTP/TELNET

From: David Efflandt (efflandt_at_xnet.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 04:47:21 +0000 (UTC)

On 1 Feb 2005 03:57:57 -0800, Carl Hilton <carlvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> I AM using SENDMAIL. downloaded from SENDMAIL.ORG, running on a
> SLACKWARE LINUX box. I am using TELNET for troubleshooting SMTP
> purporses ONLY. I have ALL my subnets listed by IP in my
> /etc/mail/access and I HAVE refreshed/rebuilt the access.db.
>
> my sendmail.mc:
>
> divert(0)dnl
> VERSIONID(`$Id: generic-linux.mc,v 8.1 1999/09/24 22:48:05 gshapiro Exp
> $')
> OSTYPE(linux)dnl
> DOMAIN(generic)dnl
> FEATURE(`access_db')
> MAILER(local)dnl
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
> define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`authwarnings,needmailhelo,needexpnhelo,needvrfyhelo,noexpn,restrictmailq,restrictqrun')
> Thanks for everybody's replies.

What do your mail logs say when you attempt to telent to smtp server port
25 from other local subnets? Do you have proper routing to other local
subnets (can you ping/traceroute from the server to those client IPs)?