Postfix and Courier will not receive mail
Lance Earl
dallypost at yahoo.com
Thu May 5 13:28:59 UTC 2005
--- Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Lance,
>
> If you have installed PostFix on an Ubuntu system,
> then by default it
> only listens on the local interface, lo and not on
> any external
> interface. Hence you are not seeing port 25 open
> which is needed to
> receive SMTP traffic.
>
> You need to edit the file /etc/postfix/master.cf.
> The first uncommented
> line should look something like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1:smtp inet n - - - -
> smtpd
>
> Change this to something like:
>
> smtp inet n - - - - smtpd
>
> which will allow smtp traffic from anywhere.
>
> and then restart postfix. You can do this with the
> command 'postfix
> reload' as root.
>
> Therest of the config is all done in
> /etc/postfix/main.cf and is mainly
> to do with sending of e-mail. As you seem to be
> doing this already, it's
> probably OK.
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
Hi Tony,
Thanks for the help. Here is the first few lines of my
master.cf. I beleive that it is set correctly and
still I get no incoming email. When I use nmap to
check for open ports, 25 is not on the list.
Lance
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