From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 16:56:19 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 EEA6616A41C for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:56:19 +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 85EA643D49 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:56:19 +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 j5LH0WLq041924; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:00:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j5LH0WAT041923; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:00:31 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: "albi@scii.nl" Message-ID: <20050621170031.GA41870@thought.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050620005124.032ebcf8.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: Gary Kline , 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: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:56:20 -0000 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 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