can a previous installation of sendmail conflict with postfix? i seem to be getting timed out errors. postfix is running per the command prompt status check.
----- Original Message ---- From: Tashfeen Ekram <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:57:35 AM Subject: Re: Newbie configuration/installation question I installed it with apt-get install postfix and then choose "Internet Site" during the configuration. i have configured rails to use smtp. config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :address => 'localhost', :port => 25, :domain => 'www.example.com', } ----- Original Message ---- From: J Sloan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:45:40 PM Subject: Re: Newbie configuration/installation question Tashfeen Ekram wrote: > I have installed Postfix on Ubuntu to use to only send emails for my > rails application. My rails application is not able to connect to it. > Could this be because sendmail is listeneing at port 20? > also, what configuration would suit me best if I only want to send > emails ant not receive. This is onyl for testing purposes on my own > laptop. Just to eliminate a lot of guesswork: when you say you "installed postfix" did you do something like "apt-get install postfix" or click on postfix to install via synaptic, or did you download a tarball from the internet and build it yourself? How is rails configured to send the mail - with the sendmail command, or via an smtp connection to the local host? Joe
