Problem with postfix
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Sun Nov 16 10:50:35 UTC 2003
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Mike Burger wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Kit Knox wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Interestingly, I've been running postfix for years, and have never
> actually had to use the "inet_interfaces" option. I believe that if you
> don't bother to specify an "inet_interfaces" option line, it listens on
> all interfaces.
>
> He also might need to check his firewall configuration, to make sure that
> the system is set to accept connections on port 25.
And, of course, the issue was addressed with an answer, and a response by
one of the folks whose RPMS for postfix I've been using for quite a while.
I really should wade through all the new mail before I reply to something.
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