From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 19 22:01:20 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 481A116A41C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:01:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526AD43D49 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:01:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5JM5Hih051917; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:05:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j5JM5Gxw051916; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:05:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:05:16 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: "albi@scii.nl" Message-ID: <20050619220516.GB34412@thought.org> References: <20050619174509.GA32544@thought.org> <20050619191451.GB15438@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20050619212223.0b43b89f.albi@scii.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050619212223.0b43b89f.albi@scii.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18++ years of service to the Unix community Cc: kline@tao.thought.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jonathan Chen 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 22:01:20 -0000 On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:22:23PM +0200, albi@scii.nl wrote: > 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 On my FBSD mailserver I run sendmail, on my ubuntu computer I'm running postfix. Can't make much sense of master.cf from a glance. Is there a way of accepting mail from any/all other servers? gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix