On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 Dvmcaferty@aol.com wrote:

> But I cannot receive e-mail. (using sendmail)
>
> The error messages from the bounced e-mails looks
> like this:

Bounce messages are usually not good for troubleshooting.

Some troubleshooting ideas/steps:

1) on the mail server, run:

 netstat -an  # and make sure that port 25 is listening

 telnet localhost 25 # to make sure sendmail is listening at least locally

(And type "quit" to exit the SMTP session.)

 telnet your.public.ip.address 25

2) from a remote computer:

 dig seeop.net MX # and make sure it has an MX record

 telnet mail.seeop.net. 25 # connect to that MX as shown above

Then try some SMTP commands:

HELO your.local.host.name
MAIL FROM: <your@email.address>
RCPT TO: <your@seeop.net.address>
DATA
Hello

.  <- period here
QUIT


By the way, mail.seeop.net (207.108.140.106) doesn't appear to have a SMTP
listening to port 25.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/