can only recieve local messages with sendmail,

I can send messages to any one, but only recieve local messages, how do I fix the problem, I am useing RH8.0

Make sure you add your domain name to the sendmail local-host-names file - see your sendmail.cf file setting for Fw to find out which file this is (usually it's something like /etc/mail/local-host-names).

It is in there, didn't work, any other ideas

What error messages do you get when you try and deliver mail to an address on the domain? Look at your error logs and also paste any error messages you receive in your mail client. Consider using telnet to connect to the server and send a mail.

hi
did you setup pop server too?

I'm having the same problem, I think ...

I have two machines I am playing with, sal9000 and epsilon. Both of them can recieve mail from, say, hotmail and a few other third party sources I've tried. Epsilon doesn't seem to be able to send to anyone, and I don't know why.

Telnet'ing from epsilon to sal9000 port 25 fails with "no route to host;" any other port that has a service available (like echo, 7) works.

Nmap'ing from epsilon to sal9000 says port 25 is filtered; whereas, nmap'ing sal9000 from a third party host says port 25 is open.

Nmap'ing a third party host says port 25 is filtered; whereas, nmaping the same host rom sal9000 says port 25 is open.

Epsilon's firewall passes through all outbound traffic and accepts related/established, as well as connections to various service ports. Heck, having epsilon unambiguously accept all traffic doesn't help the problem ...

Red Hat Linux 9.0 ...