On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Patrick Franz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, 16. Januar 2007 18:38 schrieb Paul Tomblin:
> >
> > > Yes, Exim is running for a year or so and it is working so far.
> > >
> > > fb04184:~# telnet localhost 25
> > > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> > If it's not listening on port 25 on localhost, then it's not "working
> > so far".  You need to figure out where it is listening.
>
> The server is used to just forward/redirect mails as those addresses are
> defined in /etc/aliases.

But it's not. I think you missed in your output from "telnet localhost 25"
that it responded "connection refused".

> A netstat -lnp gives:
>
> tcp        0      0 130.83.2.184:25         0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN     21340/exim4
>
> with 130.83.2.184 being the server's IP.

I'm no expert but I think just because it's listening to 130.83.2.184 on
port 25 does not mean it's listening to localhost (127.0.0.1) on port 25.

-- Larry Stone
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