postfix, ubuntu+postfix and FBSD+sendmail

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:45:09AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> 	People,
> 
> 	This is one reason that I don't want to switch to postfix 
> 	(or any other "more secure" MTA).  So far I have figured 
> 	out most things on ubuntu linux--(Debian based).  I can get 
> 	mail *out* from any acct; but not in.  According to my 
> 	sendmail /var/log/maillog, the connection is refused:
> 
> 
> Jun 19 10:18:50 sage sm-mta[60201]: j5F3qGbQ035034:
> to=<allyson at thought.org>, delay=4+13:26:14, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=relay, pri=22800576, relay=ethic.thought.org., dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by ethic.thought.org.
> Jun 19 10:18:50 sage sm-mta[60201]: j5F3rm4u035037:
> to=<allyson at thought.org>, delay=4+13:24:45, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=relay, pri=22890920, relay=ethic.thought.org., dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by ethic.thought.org.

A connection refused means that the outgoing box doesn't think
there's a socket listening on the receiving end. Have you made sure
that:

    1. postfix is running?
    2. no firewall blocks in place?
    3. "inet_interfaces = all" in Postix's main.cf?

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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