postfix

[kkiedrowski]

I have slackware 10.1 [this moment i am running slapt-get to do a distro upgrade]
However I have been unable to get postfix to work. I have been online and seen all the tutorials that talk about setting up postfix to run with courier, maildrop, spam assassian, and etc.
I have apache 1.3 mysql 4.0.23 postfix 2.2.5 and what i think are the latest stable release of the other components.
in following the direction i have found they all come to a point where you telnet to the local machine at port 25. I never get a "welcome message" or anything.
I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
i think at this point I may need to reinstall postfix but it seems to work locally but it is the smtp/pop stuff that I cannot get running... I want to eb able to web adminitor this but am totally lost at this point. does anyone have any ideas what I may be doing or can they point me to a slackware specific set of instructions?
[I think the courier part is my problem]

 

[thedaver]

I don't know postfix to help you with the application itself, but a simpler way to determine what's "listening" is to issue the following command as 'root' user

"lsof -Pni"

Look for ports showing listening on :25 and :110



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[kkiedrowski]

this is the only port that shows anything and i guess I have something done wrong
master 3000 root 11u IPv4 7839 TCP *:25 (LISTEN

what is "master"?

 

[thedaver]

master" in this output is the Linux application name that owns the process on that port.

Some rudimentary googling reveals that this is, indeed, the postfix daemon listening on SMTP for inbound email

http://www.postfix-book.com/debugging.html

(scan for "lsof")

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