postfix, ubuntu+postfix and FBSD+sendmail

[albi at scii.nl]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:14:51 +1200
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz> wrote:

> 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?

from the posting it's not so clear to me that the poster is running
postfix on FreeBSD and/or ubuntu ?

if the latter only, then i'd like to add that in ubuntu warty (not sure
about hoary), the postfix master.cf was by default configured to accept
only mail from localhost