On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 12:32, kenwardc wrote: > Hi Reuben > > I thought I knew why you did that but one can never be sure! ;) Thanks > for the info. I have tried it out on the postfix server so far and > have got nowhere. The server is still not accepting on 25. I have > created a special rule for the firewall from my address so that I can > log each of my attempts and I see the firewall allows the access to > the server immediately with no problem, so the issue is still > somewhere at the server end. > > See my previous message to this list re the postfix server? ah, postfix... the instructions your were pointed at were for sendmail. the change for postfix is in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file just find the inet_interfaces line and alter it to read inet_interfaces = all and restart postfix. be aware that postfix REQUIRES an entry in /etc/postfix/aliases aliasing root to a mortal user. It will be currently set to the dummy user 'postfix' you'll need to change this, and then run postalias /etc/postfix/aliases <silly basic question> postfix is running, correct? you _did_ activate it using either redhat-switch-mail or the /usr/sbin/alternatives command? </silly basic question> > > Regards and thanks again > Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Reuben > > D. Budiardja > > Sent: 24 August 2004 13:25 > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > Subject: Re: Switching SMTP "on" > > > > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 07:43, kenwardc wrote: > > > Hi Reuben and thanks for coming back to me. > > > > > > Easy for experts to say "look at the documentation" but not always > > > > > > easy for the newbie to know what to look for or even where to > > look. > > > That's why I usually try to point people to the > > documentations than just give the answer, so next time they > > know where to start looking. Plus, I usually point it to > > rather specific place, not something too vague or broad. > > > > Some people spent their effort writing (nice) documentations. > > It's nice and better to use them rather repeating the > > explanation here. > > > > > I > > > guess you'll remember being in the same boat when you started... > > > > I do, and I appreciate more when people give me hints / > > points to documentation, and explains stuffs to me when I > > still didn't get it, rather than just give answer in a form > > 1. do this, 2. do that, etc and me not knowing what all those means. > > > > > > BTW, I am not expert at all. I've just been around for a while :) > > > > If the docs don't help, then let us know. > > > > RDB > > -- > > Reuben D. Budiardja > > Dept. Physics and Astronomy > > University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN > > --- > All messages scanned by AVG 7.0 Anti-Virus scanner and TGIS Anti-Spam > Firewall. -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
