Forum OpenACS Q&A: mail install requirements

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Posted by Rafael Calvo on
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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Posted by Don Baccus on
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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Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on
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.