After the restart, if I go to one of the trusted servers, to bypass the firewall, I still get "connection refused" straight away but if I do it again on the console it works fine with "localhost" as it did before. Stumped of Berkshire here! > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cowles, Steve > Sent: 24 August 2004 14:57 > To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' > Subject: RE: Switching SMTP "on" > > kenwardc wrote: > > Hi Steve > > > > Running the netstat -nap | grep ":25" I get > > > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > > > Have looked at the firewall logs and they definitely show > the incoming > > from me as PERMIT rather than BLOCK so am assuming it's not > firewall > > for the moment. > > Looks like postfix is only listening on the loopback > interface. If you "do" > have inet_interfaces = all in main.cf, then you might need to > issue a "service postfix restart" instead of a reload. I'm > grasping here because everything that you have posted looks correct. > > FWIW: I have inet_interfaces set to... > > myhostname = mail.mydomain.com > inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost > > [root@excelsior postfix]# netstat -nap | grep ":25" > tcp 0 0 192.168.8.2:25 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN > 10004/master > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN > 10004/master > > Steve Cowles > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > --- All messages scanned by AVG 7.0 Anti-Virus scanner and TGIS Anti-Spam Firewall. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
