Problem with postfix

[Mike Burger]

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.

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