From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 16:46:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09B816A412 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:46:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B78843D6A for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:46:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [172.23.170.138] (helo=anti-virus01-09) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GVWMc-0005fX-Rz; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:46:26 +0100 Received: from [82.41.253.33] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GVWMV-0002un-Mp; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:46:19 +0100 Message-ID: <452536DB.80303@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:46:19 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060515 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aziz Manas References: <57fdf6a00610050843l1373f987sdc5c27a99d253bf8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <57fdf6a00610050843l1373f987sdc5c27a99d253bf8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Couldn't open SMTP server 127.0.0.1:25! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:46:28 -0000 Aziz Manas wrote: > I'm running Redhat 9 with OpenWebMail installed. When i try to send > email it > got this error message from OpenWebMail > Couldn't open SMTP server 127.0.0.1:25! > This is a FreeBSD mailing list. FreeBSD has nothing whatsoever to do with Redhat, I'm afraid. Having a wild guess, it looks like postfix is not actually running. Try "ps augx | egrep postfix" to see that there is actually something listening. If not, then check that you actually have startup scripts enabled for postfix. Try: ls /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/S*po* which should show output like /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S80postfix /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S80postfix /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S80postfix /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80postfix If not, the as root chkconfig --add postfix probably does the right thing, but I find the chkconfig man page to be obscure and unhelpful so there might be a better way. After running the above ls should show the files as listed above. To try starting postif now, run as root sh /etc/init.d/postfix start If none of this makes any sense, then I suggest getting a book on Linux administration. --Alex