I think postfix installs as listening to loacl host only..
Try going to:
/etc/postfix/main.cf
Comment out:
inet_interfaces = localhost
and uncomment
inet_interfaces = all
Paul
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 21:59, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I'm trying to setup/config Postfix on RH73 (one small step at a time);
>
> I can sent mail out from the host, but, am struggling to make it recieve
> anything external;
>
> from command line on the server itself , I can see Postfix is waiting:
>
> # telnet myserver.sbt.net.au 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to myserver.sbt.net.au.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 myserver.sbt.net.au ESMTP Postfix
> ehlo roman.sbt.net.au
> 250-myserver.sbt.net.au
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-SIZE 10240000
> 250-VRFY
> 250-ETRN
> 250-XVERP
> 250 8BITMIME
> quit
> 221 Bye
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
> BUT, If i try to telnet from another host on same LAN, I get 'connection
> refused'
>
> I am not sure if it's my ipchains firewall ? or, Postfix setup ?
>
> is this ipchains OK for smtp ?
>
> :input ACCEPT
> :forward ACCEPT
> :output ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 3306 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 10000 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 25 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 80 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 21 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 22 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 23 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 67:68 -d 0/0 67:68 -p udp -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 67:68 -d 0/0 67:68 -p udp -i eth1 -j ACCEPT
> -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -i lo -j ACCEPT
> -A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 0:1023 -y -j REJECT
> -A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 2049 -y -j REJECT
> -A input -p udp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 0:1023 -j REJECT
> -A input -p udp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 2049 -j REJECT
> -A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 6000:6009 -y -j REJECT
> -A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 7100 -y -j REJECT
>
>
>
> Voytek Eymont
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