On Wednesday 31 May 2006 09:46, Mark Carlson wrote: > On 5/31/06, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This should be a no-brainer. I've Googled the hell out of it and > > tried a bajillion things, but no go. KMail can't connect to my > > (Kolab) postfix. A netstat -tpl (thanks Aaron!) shows > > > > tcp 0 0 localhost:smtp *:* LISTEN 1 3150/sendmail: MTA > > > > I take this to mean that postfix will only accept localhost > > connections. Telnetting to localhost 25 from the box works, but > > telnetting from outside to port 25 fails with a "connection > > refused" which seems to bear this theory out. > > > > I can't help but feel this is so lame, but I can't suss it. Can > > someone tell me where to tell postix to accept connections from > > the outside world? > > By the outside world, do you mean outside your local network or > outside the one computer? If you mean outside your local network, > which ISP are you on? Some ISPs "block" port 25 traffic, but I don't > know if they do it in Calgary... just a thought. > > -Mark
For postfix, try this: # postconf inet_interfaces # postconf -e inet_interfaces=all # postconf inet_interfaces # /etc/init.d/postfix restart The parameter is located in /etc/postfix/main.cf -- Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
