From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 2:59:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [193.162.142.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3E937B402 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:59:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EE8CA5BC4; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:59:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:59:40 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix not accepting SMTP connections Message-ID: <20020308115940.A23919@mail.droso.net> References: <20020308115346.G24040@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020308115346.G24040@xs4all.nl>; from rene@xs4all.nl on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:53:46AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 4.5-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:53:46AM +0100, rene@xs4all.nl wrote: > In general, i'm looking for a good freebsd postfix howto, something more = than > an echo of the postfix.org site.. >=20 > in particular, i've installed the thing, did as > http://www.postfix.org/basic.html describes to configure it, but can't ge= t it > to accept incoming smtp connections :( >=20 > if you want any other diagnostics besides the ones below, just ask.. >=20 > $ /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd > smtpd: fatal: do not run this command by hand >=20 > $ grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf > sendmail_enable=3D"YES" >=20 [snip] >=20 > $ cat /etc/mail/mailer.conf > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.2 1999/12/29 18:24:06 peter Exp $ > sendmail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail > send-mail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail > mailq /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail > newaliases /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail >=20 These should point to postfix' sendmailwrapper /usr/local/sbin/sendmail. AFAIR "make replace" in /usr/ports/mail/postfix should do this for you. Good ol' sendmail probably was started at boot and attached to port 25. Have a look in /var/log/maillog and /var/log/messages. Best, /erwin --=20 Erwin Lansing -- http://droso.org fingerprint =3D FB58 9797 299A F18E 2D3E 73D6 AB2F 5A5B 1525 6990 "Show me a web app that can't be served from a Pentium 100 and I'll show you a dead dot-com" -- Kevin Jamieson --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8iJmcqy9aWxUlaZARAp40AKDZcy+zTC9bvhy0MEZjCX/wrC4GCACg9eBx q7dhikwaJyjtdbX2dLyhWZ4= =3WEA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message