On 05/18/2014 05:06 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive:
I'm trying to send email from my Fedora-20/KDE laptop "rose" to my CentOS-6.5 local home server "grover" (in order to run a SpamAssassin test), but I am finding this surprisingly difficult. I've tried with KMail and mail, sending email to "tim@grover", "tim@grover.localdomain", and various other combinations, but all fail with "recipient rejected". And telnet gives [tim@rose ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.5 25 Trying 192.168.2.5... telnet: connect to address 192.168.2.5: Connection refused Is there a setting I could change, or is the exercise hopeless?
Are you certain that grover is running an MTA and that it's listening to anything other than 127.0.0.1? Easiest way to find out: # netstat -lpnt | grep :25 If you only see something like: tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 ... then it's running, but won't accept incoming mail from the outside world. You'll need to bugger the config to make it listen to an additional IP. How you do that depends on if it's sendmail or postfix. If you don't see a line like that at all, then your MTA isn't even running. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - - just very picky of who its friends are! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
