Postfix, not receiving mail

[Matthew Carpenter]

Dirk Moolman wrote:

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>From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
>[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Net Llama!
>Sent: 10 January 2005 04:32 PM
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>On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Dirk Moolman wrote:
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>>Hi, I am new to this group.   I work on Solaris, but have been asked
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>>help out with a postfix setup on a SUSE SLES 8 machine.
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>>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.
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>>Any tips / suggestions ?
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>>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?
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>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.
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>They are just telling me that Linux is not receiving mail. 
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>I spoke to someone who pointed me to this setting in the main.cf file:
>inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
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>and also to this one in /etc/sysconfig/mail:
>SMTPD_LISTEN_REMOTE="yes"    (was set to no, I changed it to yes)
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>Any help you can give me will be appreciated.
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>Thanks
>Dirk
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That's a good first step.  Are you running a firewall on that system?
# iptables -L -n
If that shows any policies or rules that DROP anything, we'll get more 
specific.

Somebody already asked about log files.  Those would be helpful 
(/var/log/mail*)