Switching SMTP "on"

kenwardc kenwardc at tgis.co.uk
Tue Aug 24 14:02:33 UTC 2004


After the restart, if I go to one of the trusted servers, to bypass
the firewall, I still get "connection refused" straight away but if I
do it again on the console it works fine with "localhost" as it did
before.

Stumped of Berkshire here!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Cowles, Steve
> Sent: 24 August 2004 14:57
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: RE: Switching SMTP "on"
>
> 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
>
>
> --
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe
mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>
>
>



---
All messages scanned by AVG 7.0 Anti-Virus scanner and TGIS Anti-Spam Firewall.





More information about the redhat-list mailing list