[Mailman-Users] Low level smtp error

[Dirk Koopman]

Paul Tomblin wrote:
> Quoting Patrick Franz (patrick at malkin.de):
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am Dienstag, 16. Januar 2007 18:38 schrieb Paul Tomblin:
>>>> Yes, Exim is running for a year or so and it is working so far.
>>>>
>>>> fb04184:~# telnet localhost 25
>>>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>>> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>>> If it's not listening on port 25 on localhost, then it's not "working
>>> so far".  You need to figure out where it is listening.
>> The server is used to just forward/redirect mails as those addresses are 
>> defined in /etc/aliases.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Then you need to set SMTPHOST to '130.83.2.184' instead of 'localhost', so
> that you're not connecting as localhost.
> 

or comment out the 'local_interfaces = 130.83.2.184' line in exim.conf 
and restart exim.