[Mailman-Users] Low level smtp error

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Patrick Franz (patrick at malkin.de):
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 16. Januar 2007 18:38 schrieb Paul Tomblin:
> >
> > > Yes, Exim is running for a year or so and it is working so far.
> > >
> > > fb04184:~# telnet localhost 25
> > > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> > If it's not listening on port 25 on localhost, then it's not "working
> > so far".  You need to figure out where it is listening.
> 
> The server is used to just forward/redirect mails as those addresses are 
> defined in /etc/aliases.
> 
> 
> 
> A netstat -lnp gives:
> 
> tcp        0      0 130.83.2.184:25         0.0.0.0:*               
> LISTEN     21340/exim4
> 
> with 130.83.2.184 being the server's IP.

Then you need to set SMTPHOST to '130.83.2.184' instead of 'localhost', so
that you're not connecting as localhost.

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