Forum OpenACS Q&A: mail install requirements

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1: mail install requirements
Posted by Rafael Calvo on 05/07/02 01:59 AM
Hi,
The installation documentation for 4.5 does not say anything about the
minimum mail requirements.
I had no problems so far, but in this new solaris machine I get:

"Could not connect to "localhost:25"
(I don't see anything relevant in the log file)

Could it be a config problem with sendmail?

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2: Response to mail install requirements (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 05/07/02 02:54 AM
25 is the port that mail transport agents listen on.  If AOLserver can't connect it means that either sendmail (or whatever) isn't running or is refusing connections for some reason.
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3: Response to mail install requirements (response to 1)
Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 05/07/02 04:46 AM
Sometimes I have found that the local sendmail or other MTA does not answer to "localhost" or "127.0.0.1".  It may bind only to the ethernet interface and not the loopback interface.

In such cases I set the MailHost parameters under ns/parameters to be the public IP address.  The default mail server configuration usually allows mail clients connecting from the machine's own local ethernet interface to send mail.