Ahhh... so basically, you're interactively entering normal smtp commands. As Gru would say, "Light bulb!" Cool trick.

In /etc/postfix/main.cf,

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I don't see any line with 127.0.0.1 in it. Here's the output:


Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format
# of the file, see the master(5) manual page (command: "man 5 master").
#
# ==========================================================================# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
# (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
# ==========================================================================
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
#submission inet n - n - - smtpd# -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes
# -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
#smtps inet n - n - - smtpd
# -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
# -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
#628 inet n - n - - qmqpd
pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup
qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr
#qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 oqmgr
tlsmgr unix - - n 1000? 1 tlsmgr
1,1
rewrite unix - - n - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce
defer unix - - n - 0 bounce
trace unix - - n - 0 bounce
verify unix - - n - 1 verify
flush unix n - n 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
smtp unix - - n - - smtp
# When relaying mail as backup MX, disable fallback_relay to avoid MX loops
relay unix - - n - - smtp
-o fallback_relay=
# -o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o smtp_connect_timeout=5
showq unix n - n - - showq
error unix - - n - - error
discard unix - - n - - discard
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp
anvil unix - - n - 1 anvil
scache unix - - n - 1 scache
#
# ====================================================================
# Interfaces to non-Postfix software. Be sure to examine the manual
# pages of the non-Postfix software to find out what options it wants.
#
# Many of the following services use the Postfix pipe(8) delivery
# agent. See the pipe(8) man page for information about ${recipient}
# and other message envelope options.
# ====================================================================
#
# maildrop. See the Postfix MAILDROP_README file for details.
# Also specify in main.cf: maildrop_destination_recipient_limit=1
#
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
#
# The Cyrus deliver program has changed incompatibly, multiple times.
#
old-cyrus unix - n n - - pipe
flags=R user=cyrus argv=/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/deliver -e -m ${extension} ${user}
# Cyrus 2.1.5 (Amos Gouaux)
# Also specify in main.cf: cyrus_destination_recipient_limit=1
cyrus unix - n n - - pipe
user=cyrus argv=/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user}
#
# See the Postfix UUCP_README file for configuration details.







Does that even make any sense?

Thanks.

Actually, this worked and I can connect but now I get a relay access denied error when testing. I guess that's another issue though.

Can anyone help from this point? What is a relay access denied error?

Take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mail_relay

Kind regards

How do I change it from an open relay? And is postfix configured to be an open relay out of the box?

Thanks for all help.

It's not an open relay, which is good.
Take a look at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post3857699

Kind regards

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BTW-I still never found a line with 127.0.0.1 in it and now Im doing another setup and I have the same issue and the inet_interfaces=all isn't solving it this time so I'm assuming this issue is the problem this time around. How do I change the 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 as it's showing up that way again.

Thanks for help.

Hi There

My suggestion was wrong, as they sateted, you must change the line

inet_interfaces = all

under your /etc/postfix/main.cf file

The relay problem you have is different issue, where you need to read up on how to allow relay access for postfix

Please read following link for solution

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post3857699

I did this too with no success. Im really starting to lose faith in myself here as I just cannot seem to get postfix working correctly. Dovecot's a whole other issue too. I've read just about every guide I can find on the net and I just can't figure out where I'm going wrong. If anyone has any tips or suggestions or has been through this before and found a solution, I would be most grateful. As it is I'm about to throw in the towel and go back to my trusty OS X Server setup.

What is your current problem, or rather error message you are getting ?

Connection refused. It appears port 25 is not available for smtp traffic.

Are you getting
or
It worked before, so what did you changed?
You could connect, but got
Did you looked at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post3857699
as suggested before?

Some things to verify
Is port 25 forwarded on the router to the server?
Does the firewall allows traffic on port 25?

Kind regards

He's trying to see if the postfix service is responding. Using telnet in this way is a fairly standard means of testing services.