Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:46:19 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Aziz Manas <azeissmanas@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Couldn't open SMTP server 127.0.0.1:25! Message-ID: <452536DB.80303@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <57fdf6a00610050843l1373f987sdc5c27a99d253bf8@mail.gmail.com> References: <57fdf6a00610050843l1373f987sdc5c27a99d253bf8@mail.gmail.com>
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Aziz Manas wrote:
> I'm running Redhat 9 with OpenWebMail installed. When i try to send
> email it
> got this error message from OpenWebMail
> Couldn't open SMTP server 127.0.0.1:25!
>
This is a FreeBSD mailing list. FreeBSD has nothing whatsoever to do
with Redhat, I'm afraid.
Having a wild guess, it looks like postfix is not actually running. Try
"ps augx | egrep postfix" to see that there is actually something
listening. If not, then check that you actually have startup scripts
enabled for postfix.
Try:
ls /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/S*po*
which should show output like
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S80postfix /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S80postfix
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S80postfix /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80postfix
If not, the as root
chkconfig --add postfix
probably does the right thing, but I find the chkconfig man page to be
obscure and unhelpful so there might be a better way. After running the
above ls should show the files as listed above.
To try starting postif now, run as root
sh /etc/init.d/postfix start
If none of this makes any sense, then I suggest getting a book on Linux
administration.
--Alex
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