Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:05:16 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> Cc: kline@tao.thought.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: postfix, ubuntu+postfix and FBSD+sendmail Message-ID: <20050619220516.GB34412@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050619212223.0b43b89f.albi@scii.nl> References: <20050619174509.GA32544@thought.org> <20050619191451.GB15438@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20050619212223.0b43b89f.albi@scii.nl>
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:22:23PM +0200, albi@scii.nl wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:14:51 +1200 > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> 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=<allyson@thought.org>, 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=<allyson@thought.org>, 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 > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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