[mdlug] Postfix question

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Jay Nugent 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


What distro are you using? Does it have a firewall? Port 25 does need to
be open for smtpd to receive mail.