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How can I tell if my ISP blocks port 25 connections?
What is the best way of going about this as I have just setup a mail server using the www.qmailrocks.org tutorial and all seems to be working well internally, but I cannot accept any emails from external sources.
I have configured my smoothwall router to forward all port 25 requests to the correct macine, and surfing to http://mail.mydomain.com shows my webmail interface so why can I not get the emails from the external sources?
Originally posted by davholla www.grc.com scans your ports to see if they are open.
This one worked a charm, but found that my port 25 was blocked so I think that some gentle crawling to my ISP should be able to get them to open the port up for me.
Originally posted by jme Thanks all for your help and responses.
This one worked a charm, but found that my port 25 was blocked so I think that some gentle crawling to my ISP should be able to get them to open the port up for me.
Cheers guys,
Jamie
If you're not lucky, just like me, and your ISP will not unblock you port 25, there is another low cost alternative:
have a look at no-ip.com
They offer to redirect you mail to another port on your machine... You just specify no-ip as your mail manager (MX record in DNS) and they will receive the mail and redirect it on another port...
Works great, it's my set-up and it's handling about 100 mail per day..
Originally posted by LuggerHouse If you're not lucky, just like me, and your ISP will not unblock you port 25, there is another low cost alternative:
have a look at no-ip.com
They offer to redirect you mail to another port on your machine... You just specify no-ip as your mail manager (MX record in DNS) and they will receive the mail and redirect it on another port...
Works great, it's my set-up and it's handling about 100 mail per day..
Well I have had to go the no-ip route and get the forwarding service, but I am having problmes getting qmail to 'listen' to a different port other than 25.
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