_Qwerty_ Posted December 16, 2002 Report Share Posted December 16, 2002 Hello! I use Mandrake 9.0, and the postfix version that comes along with it. But it seems i can send mail with pine, but not recieve any mail from the outside world, I did this (as root) "netstat -na|grep LISTEN" and it returned tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN so it seems postfix binds to localhost, but i dont know what to do about it, i tried to edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and added "inet_interfaces = all" instead of "inet_interfaces = localhost" and did a "service postfix reload" but that dident do the trick? any ideas anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 You should use fetchmail to retrieve mail from a distant storage (typically your ISP). Then you do as you want: - either direct access to /var/spool/mail/<user> with a capable mail client, - or install a POP3 server, - or install a IMAP server. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Qwerty_ Posted December 17, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 Yes i should have explained, i wanna get e-mail sent direcly to my smtp server, (i dont have a mail account on my ips) but i do have access to a fully qualified domain name, and my box is online 24/7. [root@qwerty postfix]# hostname qwerty.is-a-geek.org and i wanna read my mail with pine, which i already have installed. but it seems that postfix is only listening on localhost (127.0.0.1) so i need fix that to be able to recieve mail from the outside world. --- Session Transcript --- MX-record resolution of [qwerty.is-a-geek.org] in progress (DNS Server: 212.181.54.3)... Name server has no records of the requested type for that domain. Attempting SMTP connection to [qwerty.is-a-geek.org : 25] A-record resolution of [qwerty.is-a-geek.org] in progress (DNS Server: 212.181.54.3)... D=qwerty.is-a-geek.org TTL=(186) A=[212.112.45.146] Attempting SMTP connection to [212.112.45.146 : 25] Waiting for socket connection... Winsock Error 10061: The other host is either down or has refused to connect with you at that IP and/or on that port. This message is 60 minutes old; it has 0 minutes left in this queue Primary queue lifetime exceeded; message placed in retry queue --- End Transcript --- this is what it looked when i tried to mail my own box from the outside ie from internet perhaps i should uninstall postfix, and give sendmail a try instead? i choosed postfix because i heard its suppose to be easy and yet almost compatible with sendmail. i read this article, but it hasent worked so far Mail The Unix Way - Postfix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcreek Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 Try this,,, postfix check If it returns any errors that is why it is refusing connections Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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