Re: FN-FORUM: receive mail

date posted 30th June 2007 12:04

Hi thanks for the reply

yes I have sendmail up and running, though if it's configured correctly I d=
ont=20
know.
One of the test emails (sent from the server itself) arrived at the server,=
=20
but it was unable to deliver it to the correct user: =09
Deferred: Connection refused by domainname.co.uk.


netstat -ltp give a sendmail line as follows:
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:smtp *:* LISTEN =20
19407/sendmail: acc

I seem to remember from before that I need to get it to listen on an extern=
al=20
address aswell as 127.0.0.1 - is that right??

also using fedora due to the fact that that was installed on it when leased.

/var/log/mail ends 2 days ago!


john


On Saturday 30 June 2007 12:00, Alain Williams wrote:
> Dovecot & port 110 will not help the machine receive email, dovecot is an
> imap server (port 143) but will also do POP3 (port 110) -- ie it is useful
> for serving up email once it has been received & stored on the box.
>
> For the machine to receive email you need to be running an MTA (eg
> sendmail, exim or postfix), this will listen on the smtp port (25). Is
> something listening:
>
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0netstat -ltp
>
> will tell you. Did you configure an MTA ?
>
> Have a look in /var/log for error messages.
>
> What is the box for ? If it is test then fedora is fine. Don't run a
> production service off fedora -- consider CentOS. Fedora is a development
> distribution.