On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:22:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:14:51 +1200
> Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:45:09AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > People,
> > >
> > > This is one reason that I don't want to switch to postfix
> > > (or any other "more secure" MTA). So far I have figured
> > > out most things on ubuntu linux--(Debian based). I can get
> > > mail *out* from any acct; but not in. According to my
> > > sendmail /var/log/maillog, the connection is refused:
> > >
> > >
> > > Jun 19 10:18:50 sage sm-mta[60201]: j5F3qGbQ035034:
> > > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=4+13:26:14, xdelay=00:00:00,
> > > mailer=relay, pri=22800576, relay=ethic.thought.org., dsn=4.0.0,
> > > stat=Deferred: Connection refused by ethic.thought.org.
> > > Jun 19 10:18:50 sage sm-mta[60201]: j5F3rm4u035037:
> > > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=4+13:24:45, xdelay=00:00:00,
> > > mailer=relay, pri=22890920, relay=ethic.thought.org., dsn=4.0.0,
> > > stat=Deferred: Connection refused by ethic.thought.org.
> >
> > A connection refused means that the outgoing box doesn't think
> > there's a socket listening on the receiving end. Have you made sure
> > that:
> >
> > 1. postfix is running?
> > 2. no firewall blocks in place?
> > 3. "inet_interfaces = all" in Postix's main.cf?
>
> from the posting it's not so clear to me that the poster is running
> postfix on FreeBSD and/or ubuntu ?
>
> if the latter only, then i'd like to add that in ubuntu warty (not sure
> about hoary), the postfix master.cf was by default configured to accept
> only mail from localhost
On my FBSD mailserver I run sendmail, on my ubuntu computer I'm
running postfix. Can't make much sense of master.cf from a
glance. Is there a way of accepting mail from any/all other
servers?
gary
>
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