[WBEL-users] Email troubles connecting to mail fromremoteworkstation

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 18:50 -0500, decampbell1 wrote:
> Ok... in both ipop3 and imap,  disable = no
> I turned the firewall off (service iptables stop) and there was no change..
> I tried both regular pop3 and ssl.
> My iptables do not appear to be blocking specific ports but I am blocking 
> various ip address ranges from Europe, Asia, etc. (I do this regularly when 
> I see attempts at scanning my server...
> The following is from my mail log files.
> 
> Jan 23 18:51:22 mail ipop3d[7422]: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failure 
> host=c-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.client.comcast.net [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> 
> 
> I do believe that sendmail is not the problem but I could and usually am 
> wrong...
> but, I can send emails to the server and it correctly receives them in the 
> various accounts...
> I can log in locally to the server and read them..
>  also the server can reply to them and I do receive those replies at the 
> various email address.. (hotmail, yahoo.. comcast.net etc.)
> I have researched the docs that I can find and have also purchased the Red 
> Hat Fedora Linux 2 Bible ( which very loosely matches this OS)
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cat /etc/hosts.allow
cat /etc/hosts.deny

are they preventing anything

any info of interest regarding logins in /var/log/secure ?

Craig