[mdlug] Postfix question

[Ron Blanchett]

what do you get when you telnet <ipaddress> 25 to the public ip of the system?

What distro? (It does matter, debian likes to break up the config file
into a bunch of smaller files that make setup painful sometimes.)

the inet_interfaces directive should be set =  to the interface you
want postfix to listen on.
'all' is a good setting to use for initial setup and if you have
processes that submit mail on the loopback interface.



On 5/20/08, Jay Nugent <jjn at nuge.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>    I was attampting to set up a server at a site and was perplexed when it
>  would not receive mail from the outside world.  I'm presuming that Postfix
>  does what sendmail did, and that it ONLY listens on the loopback interface
>  and not the ethernet.  This was an *easy* fix with sendmail, but I've
>  never used Postfix so this is new to me.
>
>    Can someone who has used Postfix in a "server" environment give me a
>  few pointers how to set it up?
>
>    Thanks!
>       --- Jay
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