From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 19 19:22:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F047116A41C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:22:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD76343D1D for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:22:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:9873 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dk5NB-000Ota-AM; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:22:25 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2EA1545E9; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:30:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CCE58CC29; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:22:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:22:23 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" To: Jonathan Chen Message-Id: <20050619212223.0b43b89f.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050619191451.GB15438@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20050619174509.GA32544@thought.org> <20050619191451.GB15438@osiris.chen.org.nz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kline@tao.thought.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: postfix, ubuntu+postfix and FBSD+sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:22:27 -0000 On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:14:51 +1200 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:45:09AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > People, > > > > This is one reason that I don't want to switch to postfix > > (or any other "more secure" MTA). So far I have figured > > out most things on ubuntu linux--(Debian based). I can get > > mail *out* from any acct; but not in. According to my > > sendmail /var/log/maillog, the connection is refused: > > > > > > Jun 19 10:18:50 sage sm-mta[60201]: j5F3qGbQ035034: > > to=, delay=4+13:26:14, xdelay=00:00:00, > > mailer=relay, pri=22800576, relay=ethic.thought.org., dsn=4.0.0, > > stat=Deferred: Connection refused by ethic.thought.org. > > Jun 19 10:18:50 sage sm-mta[60201]: j5F3rm4u035037: > > to=, delay=4+13:24:45, xdelay=00:00:00, > > mailer=relay, pri=22890920, relay=ethic.thought.org., dsn=4.0.0, > > stat=Deferred: Connection refused by ethic.thought.org. > > A connection refused means that the outgoing box doesn't think > there's a socket listening on the receiving end. Have you made sure > that: > > 1. postfix is running? > 2. no firewall blocks in place? > 3. "inet_interfaces = all" in Postix's main.cf? from the posting it's not so clear to me that the poster is running postfix on FreeBSD and/or ubuntu ? if the latter only, then i'd like to add that in ubuntu warty (not sure about hoary), the postfix master.cf was by default configured to accept only mail from localhost