Help with Postfix setup

[NaughtyusMaximus]

I'm running a server on debian (potato), and am having problems getting postfix to work porperly. As it stands right now, as far as I can tell I've followed the install instructions to a T.

When I try to send mail (via Outlook Express), I get the following error (after a VERY short period of time - less than one second):
Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'gleneaglemusic.net', Server: 'gleneaglemusic.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

 

[n0cmonkey]

Can you telnet to port 25 from an external machine? Can you send mail from the Debian machine? Can you connect to port 25 from that local machine?

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

Telnetting to that port doesn't work from an external host.

From internal, I get the following message:
Connection closed by forgien host

If I take the following line out of inetd.conf, when trying to send e-mail from an external client, it just gives a no socket error, couldnt' connect.

smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd

 

[n0cmonkey]

Ok, is there a firewall running on your machine? Anything in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny? Since you are still using inetd those files may be in use. Is inetd running?

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

No firewall (commented out hosts files to be sure), and inetd is running.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: NaughtyusMaximus
No firewall (commented out hosts files to be sure), and inetd is running.

Try telnetting from the linux machine:

telnet 127.0.0.1 25

and

telnet ip_address 25

See if either of those work. I havent gotten around to setting up postfix yet (although I started an installation), so beyond that, Im not quite sure what to do yet.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

Same as before, connection closed by forgien host.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: NaughtyusMaximus
Same as before, connection closed by forgien host.

It sounds like a misconfiguration somewhere. Id go back through and make sure you have everything setup correctly and running.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Just a thought, you remembered to kill -HUP inetd and any running postfix processes after you changed things right?