Switching SMTP "on"

Cowles, Steve steve at stevecowles.com
Tue Aug 24 13:56:49 UTC 2004


kenwardc wrote:
> Hi Steve
> 
> Running the netstat -nap | grep ":25" I get
> 
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*         LISTEN
> 
> Have looked at the firewall logs and they definitely show the incoming
> from me as PERMIT rather than BLOCK so am assuming it's not firewall
> for the moment.

Looks like postfix is only listening on the loopback interface. If you "do"
have inet_interfaces = all in main.cf, then you might need to issue a
"service postfix restart" instead of a reload. I'm grasping here because
everything that you have posted looks correct.

FWIW: I have inet_interfaces set to...

myhostname = mail.mydomain.com
inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost

[root at excelsior postfix]# netstat -nap | grep ":25"
tcp        0      0 192.168.8.2:25          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
10004/master        
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
10004/master

Steve Cowles





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