[olug] Sendmail is making a fool of me.... help

[Jeff Hinrichs]

I'm installing sendmail for the first time and I'm having a problem<g>
Sendmail version: 8.11.2

Short Version:  Sendmail is refusing to accept mail from the outside world.

Long Version:
Send mail is running, and I can send mail to other accounts on the box.  I
can send mail out to the 'net.  But when I send mail from the outside in I
get the following error.
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The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
<jlh at xxxxxxxx.com>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
<jlh at xxxxxxxx.com>... Deferred: Connection refused by www.xxxxxxxx.com.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
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I've blanked out the domain with xxxxxxxx.com but you get the idea.

I just ran a port scan and port 25 is not showing up.  SSH and HTTP are,
which I want.
I poked a  hole through ipchains:
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# Firewall configuration written by lokkit
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
# Note: ifup-post will punch the current nameservers through the
#       firewall; such entries will *not* be listed here.
:input ACCEPT
:forward ACCEPT
:output ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 22 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 25 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 80 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 443 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 0:1023 -y -j REJECT
-A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 2049 -y -j REJECT
-A input -p udp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 0:1023 -j REJECT
-A input -p udp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 2049 -j REJECT
-A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 6000:6009 -y -j REJECT
-A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 7100 -y -j REJECT
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but still no joy.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Jeff



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