Re: FN-FORUM: receive mail

date posted 30th June 2007 12:45

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:21:45AM -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi thanks for the reply
>
> yes I have sendmail up and running, though if it's configured correctly I dont
> know.
> One of the test emails (sent from the server itself) arrived at the server,
> but it was unable to deliver it to the correct user:
> Deferred: Connection refused by domainname.co.uk.
>
>
> netstat -ltp give a sendmail line as follows:
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:smtp *:* LISTEN
> 19407/sendmail: acc
>
> I seem to remember from before that I need to get it to listen on an external
> address aswell as 127.0.0.1 - is that right??

Yes.

Install exim, it is far easier to get going and generates sensible error messages.

yum install exim

You can use the alternatives program to change the MTA to exim from sendmail.

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

I have assumed that it is a reasonably recent version of fedora.

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