Sorry guys, I have a trouble that makes me crazy.
I've installed and configured an intranet POP3 and SMTP server on a Linux Mandrake 9.2 Box with Postfix and IMAP.
hosname -f #returns 'pippo.net'
linuxbox user
number1 is aliased to
onemail
linuxbox user
number2 is aliased to
twomail
Clients are windows boxes with outlook
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POP3 is working (at least, there are no errors while checking mail from clients)
SMTP it is not working properly (or something with names resolution ?)
Anyway the situation is:
when a client tries to send mail to the server, the mail sending fails with the error in subject:
0x800ccc0f
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if from clients you telnet port 25 of the mail server: connection is instantaneous.
Next, if you try to manually send an email...
HELO myhost
#is accepted
MAIL FROM:
onemail@pippo.net #is accepted
RCPT TO:
twomail@pippo.net #makes the connection to be lost and then TELNET quits
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Any suggestion?
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Because I was getting crazy (POP3 and SMTP installation it is something that I have already done before [cheers] ), I've removed that hdd and I've performed the installation of a mandrake 10.0 (on another disk, same pc)and I've setup and configured everything in the same identical way as the 9.2... u can guess it ... it does work.
I'm 99.9% sure everything is matching in the two configurations, but I need to understand what could be wrong/missing: 1th to fix it, 2nd to learn something (this because I don't want to "throw the spon" and take the easy solution to keep this second and working installation..)
Thank you
Robert
