I have posted my issue in numerous forums to no avail...PLEASE, I AM BEGGING YOU...HELP!

Setting up my test email server and have run into a snag: I can not connect to Postfix in any way (Outlook or telnet) from any other PC on my network. I am looking to replace my current Exchange 2000 server with my Linux as my primary email server so I need it to be able to receive email from the internet. (External MX record already configured)

I can:

- Ping my new Server
- Connect to the internet from my new server
- Telnet to Dovecot on the new server from another PC on my netwok through port 110.
- Send mail externally FROM my new server
- Telnet to Postfix FROM the server itself

I honestly believe this is a configuration issue within Postfix as I have disabled ALL firewalls, SELinux and IPTables to no avail. I just don't know where to begin..

Everything is a standard install except for what I have changed as listed below.
Here is what I have tried:

1) Installed CentOS 4.4. Install went fine. Selected a standard "server" config and only selected "Mail Server" additional to the standard server config during the initial install. Installed all updates and patches.
2) Installed Postfix via yum. Install went fine. ran the following:

# chkconfig --level 35 sendmail off
# chkconfig --level 35 postfix on
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start

Configured only the following parameters in the main.cf file:

myhostname = mail.in-tech.us
mydomain = in-tech.us
myorigin = $mydomain
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain
mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
mynetworks = 192.168.254.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8

Ran system-switch-mail and selected Postfix as my MTA.

I completely disabled the firewall, SELinux, iptables service and rebooted.

Still couldn't connect to Postfix via telnet from my other machine OR any MUA

Sounds like postfix is listening only on the loopback interface. In main.cf, you should have:
If that doesn't fix the problem, post the output of

I agree that Postfix may only be listening on the loopback interface.

To check, run the following commands (and post the output for us to see):
I would try the suggestion(s) offered by the previous user.

If it doesn't work, tell us whether you're connecting to your postfix server via it's hostname of ip address.

Another thing to try is to run tcpdump to see if any TCP/25 packets are hitting the postfix box from your LAN.
You can do that as follows (assuming you LAN is on eth1):
Cheers

Sorry -

That is exactly what I figgured out. I should have reposted my problem was solved...

Apparently Postfix is now shipping with it listening on the loopback..or at least from the CentOS yum repos...

Thanks for your patience and time!