Newbie networking help

[txalb]

I'm new to Fedora, and need some help.

I've installed QMail as I want to use my box as an e-mail server. I know its running, but I can't use e-mail. Telneting to ports 25 or 110 results in a connection refused. My guess is that I'm missing some setting to open these ports... any clues..

BTW, I went all out on this machine.. I only have a command line interface. Didn't think the machine had enough HP for X-windows. (However I am running Webmin)

any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

[foolish]

Why aren't you using either sendmail or postfix for your mail instead of qmail? Sendmail and postfix are both part of the Fedora distribution. There are documentation about setting up a mailserver in redhat 9, its very similar in Fedora, at www.redhat.com/docs/

[txalb]

In my reading, sendmail has a lot a holes. Trying to get a way from a million and one security holes.

Its not qmail that is the problem. Its up and running. I've got the web based admin tools working (used qmailrocks to set it up). The issue is the ports 25 and 110 being closed by something in my installation of fedora.

If I can't get this working soon, I'm just going to put this mail server on a w2k server box.

[lupust]

Your problem is probably a firewall. I'm assuming you have iptables running on there, if so you can check what ports are open by

/sbin/iptables -L

That should show you what's open and if you don't see a line something like

ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:25

then that's your problem.

There's also a module for iptables in webmin too that should be able to help.