Postfix servers are only listening on localhost port 25.

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Issue

  • I have smpt servers running postfix, and they can't telnet or ssh to each other on port 25.
  • netstat -tunap |grep 25 shows:
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2218/sendmail

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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