[ILUG] Fedora Core: No Incoming smtp mail!!!

[Liam Bedford]

John A. Kinsella wrote:

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>Hi.
>as above.
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>Just installed F C 1.0 - clean install (necessary as Ximian Gnome fck'd
>my Gnome setup).,
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>All is now fine except I do not receive any incoming mail.
>Outgoing mail works fine -as you see!
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>As I cannot receive incoming mail:
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>I have (temporarily) even tutned firewalling off - no good.
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>When I telnet to  my machine:
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>>telnet jkcray.maths.ul.ie 25
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>Trying 136.201.6.138...
>telnet: connect to address 136.201.6.138: Connection refused
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>So I don't think it is a firewall problem. I remember a similar problem
>when I upgraded to RH8 a year or so ago..
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>I have checked log-files to look for diagnostics - no joy.
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>I would be most grateful for any tips.
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sendmail.mc binds to 127.0.0.1 only on RedHat machines.

L.