I had some issues with sendmail actually sending out an e-mail. Then sometimes if I stopped the iptables firewall some emails would make to my inbox but that’s quite a big delay. What I had to do to get my mail working smoothly and sending right away was to allow my server’s (or lan) IP address to access sendmail. Here’s the code I put into my iptables config file. I couldn’t find a real solution that worked for me so I edited /etc/sysconfig/iptables and copied this

-A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 –sport 80 -d MYSERVERLANIPHERE –dport 1024:65535 -m state –state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

Then pasted, and changed the port to 25 instead of 80

-A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 –sport 25 -d MYSERVERLANIPHERE –dport 1024:65535 -m state –state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

Then I restarted my firewall (service iptables restart) and booyah! Shiz iz workin.