My sendmail isn't accepting connections

Asked Oct 29 '15 at 03:51

Active Oct 29 '15 at 03:51

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I must be doing something wrong, but what?

I have a brand new VPS, and I'm using Webmin to get Sendmail running.

I'm just trying to accept mail for a certain domain and forward it to my other email address.

This is what I've done:

I have Local Domains (Cw) configured to accept mail for my domain
I have Address Mappings (virtuser) set to forward everything from my domain to my email address
I stopped and started Sendmail
I'm not using a firewall

But when I try to connect to my VPS on port 25, it says "connection refused".

When I try to connect from the VPS itself (using telnet localhost 25), it does connect.

So why can't I connect remotely?

Thanks.

asked Oct 29 '15 at 03:51

Magmatic

Did you check your firewall? – EEAA Oct 29 '15 at 03:58
And this too: `netstat -npl | grep :25` – Ryan Babchishin Oct 29 '15 at 04:01
To get sendmail to listen to more than localhost: http://serverfault.com/a/673423/37681 – HBruijn Oct 29 '15 at 06:16
Thanks HBruijn, that was it. That worked. If you answer this as an answer instead of a comment, I can mark it as the right answer. – Magmatic Oct 30 '15 at 14:33

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