I can add, make sure any firewall has permission to accept email traffic. On May 19, 2014 9:44 AM, "Rick Stevens" <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote:
> On 05/18/2014 05:06 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive: > >> I'm trying to send email from my Fedora-20/KDE laptop "rose" >> to my CentOS-6.5 local home server "grover" >> (in order to run a SpamAssassin test), >> but I am finding this surprisingly difficult. >> >> I've tried with KMail and mail, >> sending email to "tim@grover", "tim@grover.localdomain", >> and various other combinations, but all fail with "recipient rejected". >> And telnet gives >> [tim@rose ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.5 25 >> Trying 192.168.2.5... >> telnet: connect to address 192.168.2.5: Connection refused >> >> Is there a setting I could change, or is the exercise hopeless? >> > > Are you certain that grover is running an MTA and that it's listening > to anything other than 127.0.0.1? Easiest way to find out: > > # netstat -lpnt | grep :25 > > If you only see something like: > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 ... > > then it's running, but won't accept incoming mail from the outside > world. You'll need to bugger the config to make it listen to an > additional IP. How you do that depends on if it's sendmail or postfix. > > If you don't see a line like that at all, then your MTA isn't even > running. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - > - just very picky of who its friends are! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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