Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:56:30 +0100 (CET) From: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> To: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD 7, how to recieve internet mail Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0901141048070.5898@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On FreeBSD 7, out of the box, one can send mail to internet destinations and can send mail locally from one user to another user on the same FreeeBSD machine But it can't receive mail from internet as it appears .. A sendmail is running freebsd7box># ps -jaxw | grep sendmail smmsp 26649 1 26649 26649 0 Is ?? 0:00.00 sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) root 26651 1 26651 26651 0 Ss ?? 0:00.04 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) The machine is listening on port 25 freebsd7box># netstat -na | grep 25 tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.25 *.* LISTEN But telnettting the freebsd box with its own ip address at port 25 from the root account of the box freebsd7box># telnet 143.129.75.1 25 Trying 143.129.75.1... telnet: connect to address 143.129.75.1: Connection refused The only thing that works is freebsd7box># telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. ... How do I make the FreeBSD7 box accept connections to port 25 from all of the internet ??
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