sendmail stopped working

running fc7.

from the logs /var/log/maillog : Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

Code:

telnet localhost 25 

fails to connect

iptables:

Code:

 /etc/init.d/iptables status
Table: filter
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
num  target     prot opt source               destination
1    RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
num  target     prot opt source               destination
1    REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
num  target     prot opt source               destination

Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (1 references)
num  target     prot opt source               destination
1    ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
2    ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 255
3    ACCEPT     esp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
4    ACCEPT     ah   --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
5    DROP       udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            224.0.0.251         udp dpt:5353
6    DROP       udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:631
7    DROP       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:631
8    ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
9    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:22
10   DROP       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:25
11   DROP       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:110
12   ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:80
13   REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

 

changing

Code:

10   DROP       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:25

to accept on 25 doesn't help... turning off iptables doesnt allow me to telnet to localhost on 25 either.

 

hosts.allow contains:
ALL:127.0.0.1

and hosts.deny contains:
ALL: ALL EXCEPT localhost

 

This ended up fixing it:

Code:

 /etc/init.d/postfix start

Any idea why this didn't do it itself on startup -- or perhaps it stopped at some time and needed to be restarted?

 

postfix is not sendmail

 

sendmail wasn't working and this fixed it.