I think it may be worth pointing out why sendmail will not directly service requests form other hosts "out of the box". It is a security thing, if you have sendmail running on your server and your server is connected to the internet to receive emial via smtp connections, then any machine on the internet could use your server to send emails that would look as if they originated in your network, this is called _spamming_ and it is not advisable to leave your server open to sending spams! For this reason you have to tell sendmail that it should handle (relay) emails from a named selection of hosts. I use webmin to handle sendmail setup. http://www.webmin.com/ Peter On Tuesday 07 May 2002 6:25 am, you wrote:

* Steven Hatfield; on 06 May, 2002 wrote:

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received "connection refused" messages.

I looked in YaST2, but couldn't find anything that allows me to let remote clients use the server.

What can I do?

edit /etc/sysconfig/mail as follows

SMTPD_LISTEN_REMOTE="yes"

also IIRC, sendmail is tcp-wrappers compiled you need to edit /etc/hosts.allow

HTH