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- From: bonde@daimi.aau.dk (Nis Peder Bonde)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: What's special about port 25 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.095416.22397@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 09:54:16 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.141247.8306@aau.dk> <1992Sep8.155451.21997@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Lines: 33
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- phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
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- >In article <1992Sep8.141247.8306@aau.dk>, adminpb@aau.dk (Nis Peder Bonde) writes:
- >|> I have made a little change in my Sendmail.mc-file.
- >...
- >|> When testing the rule, it seems to work fine:
- >...
- >|> But: When I telnet to port 25 of the machine to do the same job, I doesn't:
- >...
- >|> How come?
-
- >Did you restart the sendmail daemon? Sendmail reads the configuration
- >file once when started. If the configuration file is changed, any
- >daemon sendmail will need to be restarted. Typically, it is a daemon
- >which listens on port 25 (started with "sendmail -bd"). In this case,
- >I suspect that the daemon was still running with the old idea of the
- >configuration.
-
- Of course that was the problem :-)))))))))))))
- What an embarrasing mistake!
- Thanks for your kind help.
-
- Bonde
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