Problem with postfix

Kit Knox kit at rootshell.com
Sun Nov 16 02:42:07 UTC 2003


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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