Postfix, not receiving mail

[Dirk Moolman]

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Sent: 10 January 2005 04:32 PM

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Dirk Moolman wrote:
> Hi, I am new to this group.   I work on Solaris, but have been asked
to
> help out with a postfix setup on a SUSE SLES 8 machine.
>
> The machine can send mail, but apparently it cannot receive mail.  I
> have looked at the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, but do not understand it
> properly.
>
> Any tips / suggestions ?
>
>
>How do you know that it can't receive mail?  Is the mail bouncing?  Are
>there errors?  Can you telnet to port 25 on the mail server from a
>different box?


Sorry, I should know better - all good questions.  We have contractors
sitting here installing an application that needs to receive mail from
Linux.  My frustration is that they only know their software, and cannot
tell me how it interacts with Linux, what the errors are, how do they
know the mail isn't working, etc. - VERY frustrating.

They are just telling me that Linux is not receiving mail. 

I spoke to someone who pointed me to this setting in the main.cf file:
inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1

and also to this one in /etc/sysconfig/mail:
SMTPD_LISTEN_REMOTE="yes"    (was set to no, I changed it to yes)


Any help you can give me will be appreciated.

Thanks
Dirk