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Subject: Re: Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnet
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On 3/12/06, tom@trancegeek.net <tom@trancegeek.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   I'm trying to set up a Postfix SMTP server on my machine (FreeBSD 4.11
> ).  I
> read the cheat notes here <
> http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/mail.html>
> and I can get Postfix running.  However, when I try to telnet in or
> connect
> with Mozilla Thunderbird nothing happens.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> tom@killdozer$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.angrycoder.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> [some time goes by here...]
> [I get angry and mash the escape character like a monkey] ^]
> telnet> quit
> Connection closed.
>
> Here is some [hopefully!] useful info:
>
> tom@killdozer$ ps auxw | grep post
> postfix   275  0.0  0.2  1328 1032  ??  I     9:48PM   0:00.02 proxymap -=
t
> unix
> -u
> postfix   175  0.0  0.2  1384 1084  ??  I     9:47PM   0:00.02 qmgr -l -t
> fifo
> -u
> postfix   174  0.0  0.2  1348 1060  ??  I     9:47PM   0:00.02 pickup -l
> -t fifo
> -u
> root      173  0.0  0.2  1328 1040  ??  Is    9:47PM   0:00.08
> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/master
>
>
> tom@killdozer$ uname -a
> FreeBSD killdozer.angrycoder.org 4.11-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Fr=
i
> Apr
> 22 01:01:47 EDT 2005
> admin@63-246-146-190.domain.tld:/usr/src/sys/compile/TOMKERNEL  i386
>
> [TOMKERNEL is just generic with SSE instructions enabled]


What does your log file say?

What do your inet_interfaces  lines in  /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf look
like?