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how to enable smtp

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by bubloo

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Dear all

I am having liux 7.1, configured DNS, now i am trying sendmail server. i made the initial changes. i am able to telnet my pop3 server, and i couldn't telnet smtp server. so that i couldn't send any mails... how to enable it? where i can get it? i have installed imap*.rpm also. and enabled xinetd,imap,pop3s services. still i couldn't find where smtp services....

Pls. help me

Sakthi

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by lintadsl

smtp comes with sendmail. As soon as you install sendmail and start sendmail service, you should see sendmail is running.
have you checked that if sendmail mail is running in ps? do ps -ef |grep sendmail to see.
If sendmail is running then, next step is check firewall if port 25 is blocked or not. If it is blocked, you need to open it up.
good luck,
lintadsl.

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