How can I make sure that the MTA is properly listening on SMTPHOST/SMTPPORT (they have the default values, SMTPHOST = 'localhost', SMTPPORT = 0)? I installed Postfix by using the official directions( http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/postfix-integration.html )
Also, in regard to the firewall I added a preconfigured rule for the smtp service (port 25), so I think this should be fine.
Furthermore, netstat -na | grep ":25" produces the following result:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
I am just guessing, but could this also be to the /etc/hosts folder permissions? This is what
ls -ld /etc/hosts produces:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281 2012-06-29 03:08 /etc/hosts
Thanks, Emanuel DANCI
From: Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> To: Danci Emanuel <danci_emanuel@yahoo.com> Cc: "mailman-developers@python.org" <mailman-developers@python.org> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] smtp error - [Errno 111] Connection refused - when trying to install MM 3.0
On 6/27/2012 11:07 AM, Danci Emanuel wrote:
Also, there is one more thing that could be related to this problem. I also have installed Mailman 2.1.10 and after setting it up for the proper domain, when a user tries to subscribe to one of the lists, although the subscription is recorded, the confirmation email is never sent back. The message that appears in the smtp-failure log is this:
Jun 04 20:55:57 2012 (10427) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: <mailman.0.1338832556.10889.systers-admin@manu.pensiunealdyna.ro> Jun 04 20:55:57 2012 (10427) delivery to esdanci@acm.ro failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')
Barry has responded to the MM 3 part of this. With respect to the above, there is no MTA listening on SMTPHOST/SMTPPORT (default licalhost/25) or connection is blocked by a firewall.
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