Sending email to my local server

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/19/14 11:29, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 01:06 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I've tried with KMail and mail,
>> sending email to "tim at grover", "tim at grover.localdomain",
>> and various other combinations, but all fail with "recipient
>> rejected".
>> And telnet gives
>>   [tim at rose ~]$ telnet 192.168.2.5 25
>>   Trying 192.168.2.5...
>>   telnet: connect to address 192.168.2.5: Connection refused
> And, as well as Ed's suggestion about configuring your mailserver to
> listen to more than just localhost, have you opened the firewall?

FWIW, the firewall had to have been opened.  If not the reported error would have been "No route to host". 


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