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Re: Mail without MUA?



Le 07/01/2014 20:55, Brian a écrit :
> On Tue 07 Jan 2014 at 19:58:31 +0100, Hans wrote:
>
>> Hi Erwan,
>>> As root do /usr/sbin/lsof -i:25
>>> You'll see what smtp server is on.
>>>
>>> Note that a smtp server is needed by several basic Unix utilities (like
>>> cron).
>> Hmm, looks like postfix. 
>> lsof -i:25
>> COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
>> master  10288 root   12u  IPv4  15076      0t0  TCP *:smtp (LISTEN)
>>
>> So, postfix is listening? Maybe I misconfigured it. 
> How do you know it is postfix? There is nothing here which indictes it.
> Is it because you know you have postfix installed so that is why you say
> "looks like postfix".?
>
> A misconfiguration? Who knows? It probably doesn't matter for your
> problem.
>
> There are only two ways to get email. Either it is delivered to you or
> you go and collect it, often with POP3, What method do you use? Have it
> delivered or go to collect?
>
>
master is the name of the main postfix process. But note that having a
MTA running won't get emails from the provider pop3 server...


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