[Mailman-Users] Low level smtp error

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Larry Stone (lstone19 at stonejongleux.com):
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Patrick Franz wrote:
> > A netstat -lnp gives:
> >
> > tcp        0      0 130.83.2.184:25         0.0.0.0:*
> > LISTEN     21340/exim4
> >
> > with 130.83.2.184 being the server's IP.
> 
> I'm no expert but I think just because it's listening to 130.83.2.184 on
> port 25 does not mean it's listening to localhost (127.0.0.1) on port 25.

Yes, that's exactly what it means.  On a mail server configured to accept
mail from local senders, that would be 0.0.0.0:25.  That's why I suggested
he connnect on the 130.83.2.184:25 port instead.

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