Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:00:31 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: postfix, ubuntu+postfix and FBSD+sendmail Message-ID: <20050621170031.GA41870@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050620005124.032ebcf8.albi@scii.nl> References: <20050619174509.GA32544@thought.org> <20050619191451.GB15438@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20050619212223.0b43b89f.albi@scii.nl> <20050619220516.GB34412@thought.org> <20050620005124.032ebcf8.albi@scii.nl>
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:51:24AM +0200, albi@scii.nl wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:05:16 -0700 > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > > 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? > > a google-search for "ubuntu postfix master.cf" found this : > > http://www.petersblog.org/node/839 > > ----------- begin quote -------- > The solution to this was to edit the /etc/postfix/master.cf file and > change the lines: > > 127.0.0.1:smtp inet n - - - - smtpd > ::1:smtp inet n - - - - smtpd > > to > > smtp inet n - - - - smtpd > > which tells it to listen to any connection to the smtp port, not just > local connections. > ------------ end quote ------- > > HTH > This was a major help, thanks:) In main.cf the name of my server was missing, and more. All in all getting Postfix to work was a couple-day job. I am learning how evolution works too, so a bunch of things to get working. (mutt worked out of the box, of course.) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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