Problem with postfix

John Dean dino at ion.homeip.net
Sun Nov 16 03:13:03 UTC 2003


Thanks, that worked. Didnt realise that the install limited access to the
localhost only.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kit Knox" <kit at rootshell.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with postfix


> On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:54, John Dean wrote:
> > I have setup postfix so I can now send mail internally and externally
> > from the fedora machine. But I cannot receive mail from outside the
> > machine. Not from my local network or the internet.
> >
> > I think the problem is that connects are failing on the internal ip on
> > the mail server. If I log into the mail server I can telnet to
> > 127.0.0.1 25 but not to 192.168.0.2 25 (the internal ip address). How
> > do I get it to accept connects on the internal ip address. I have the
> > firewall turned off.
>
> You need to modify the inet_interfaces option in /etc/postfix/main.cf to
> have it bind to an additional interface.
>
> -Kit
>
>
>
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