Testing MailScanner

[Youn Gonzales]

your mta is only running on localhost (the loopback address.) you need to
configure it to run on an external interface..

Youn Gonzales
System Administrator
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Cisco CCNA/CCDA Certified Technician
Microsoft Certified Professional

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Russell" <prussell at MTELIZA.COM.AU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Testing MailScanner


> Hi and thanks again.
>
> Mail is being rejected/refused. I do netstat -a and it returns "tcp
> 0      0 localhost:smtp          *:*                     LISTEN "
>
> Postix access exists and has a line
> 10.1.   OK
>
> But still only can telnet to that machine from the local host, connection
> from another machine on same subnet recieves connection failed
>
> Pete
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> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 03:37, Peter Russell wrote:
> >I cant work out how i can tell if postfix is blocking it or
> >mailscanner? I assume postix,
>
> Probably correct.  If the mail is being rejected (i.e. can't send it at
> all) then it is postfix.  If it is being delivered to the MailScanner
> machine then rejected by MS then you will get a message back which is
> clearly from MailScanner.  You need to find postfix's equivilent to
> sendmails access database.  You might also like to check that postfix
> iis listening on all interfaces (not just the loopback) netstat -a is a
> good start for that.
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