In your /etc/rc.conf have you enabled sendmail?  This is the program that
has to be running to accept incoming SMTP connections.

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Chris Jewell wrote:

> I have set up my IIci with MacBSD and I installed PINE as my e-mail client.
> I am running my IIci on a network at work which is behind a firewall.  I
> am able to send mail out to the internet but I cannot receive mail from it.
> I have tried sending mail to my MacBSD from other servers but it never
> arrives (both mail from in and outside of the firewall).  I also, do not
> get a message from the mail daemon, on the other servers, complaining that
> it could not deliver the mail.  How do I set up MacBSD to receive mail from
> inside and outside of the firewall?
> 
> -Chris Jewell
> 
> --
>     "My fantasy has always been to find that perfect
>       laid-back town by the ocean, the kind of place where
>       the locals are all legendary characters who spend
>       their days mixing up margaritas, where the air is
>       always warm, and where the sea is crystal clear -
>       a real Maragaritaville of the mind"
> 
>                           -Jimmy Buffet
>                            "The Parrot Head Handbook"
> 
> 
> 

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