Sending email to my local server

[Lee]

I can add, make sure any firewall has permission to accept email traffic.
On May 19, 2014 9:44 AM, "Rick Stevens" <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:

> On 05/18/2014 05:06 PM, Timothy Murphy issued this missive:
>
>> I'm trying to send email from my Fedora-20/KDE laptop "rose"
>> to my CentOS-6.5 local home server "grover"
>> (in order to run a SpamAssassin test),
>> but I am finding this surprisingly difficult.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Is there a setting I could change, or is the exercise hopeless?
>>
>
> Are you certain that grover is running an MTA and that it's listening
> to anything other than 127.0.0.1? Easiest way to find out:
>
>         # netstat -lpnt | grep :25
>
> If you only see something like:
>
>         tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25 ...
>
> then it's running, but won't accept incoming mail from the outside
> world. You'll need to bugger the config to make it listen to an
> additional IP. How you do that depends on if it's sendmail or postfix.
>
> If you don't see a line like that at all, then your MTA isn't even
> running.
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