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Old 07-19-2011, 05:17 PM   #46
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What else should I look for?
 
Old 07-19-2011, 05:42 PM   #47
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I really need to figure this out...my business is riding on it.
 
Old 07-19-2011, 06:01 PM   #48
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I guess at this point I just really need to know two things:

1. If I demand that my ISP open Port 25 will that fix the issue?
2. Is this issue my config?

Im 100% certain that my main.cf file is configured correctly. The issue just seems to be whether a VMWare box running postfix works...this is very complicated I know. Any suggestions as to what my overall configuration should be? Should I try and run a straight CentOS box with no VMWare and configure it like I have the VMWare CentOS box configured now to get the VMWare issue out of the way? I really need to get this email setup. Thanks again for any help you can provide.
 
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I guess at this point I just really need to know two things:

1. If I demand that my ISP open Port 25 will that fix the issue?
Not necessarily.

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2. Is this issue my config?
Most likely. If postfix (as I pointed out above) doesn't listen
on a public interface there's no need for your ISP to block stuff.



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Im 100% certain that my main.cf file is configured correctly. The issue just seems to be whether a VMWare box running postfix works...this is very complicated I know. Any suggestions as to what my overall configuration should be? Should I try and run a straight CentOS box with no VMWare and configure it like I have the VMWare CentOS box configured now to get the VMWare issue out of the way? I really need to get this email setup. Thanks again for any help you can provide.

I haven't seen your relevant interfaces lines; it would also help
to know which network interfaces the VM thinks it has. How about
posting the output of
ifconfig
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Old 07-19-2011, 08:57 PM   #50
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Here's the output of ifconfig:


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:E2:01:88
inet addr:10.1.10.12 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fee2:188/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:265972 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:116759 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:49930616 (47.6 MiB) TX bytes:19592203 (18.6 MiB)
Interrupt:75 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8734389 (8.3 MiB) TX bytes:8734389 (8.3 MiB)
 
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And what does " inet_interfaces = " look like?
 
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inet_interfaces=all
 
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That doesn't make any sense. If you had all interfaces available
you'd see something like this:
Code:
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      6390/master
instead of your
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127.0.0.1:25
Have you got SELinux policies that stop the process from
using the real interface?
 
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No. Ive got SELinux and my firewall off.
 
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Ok, I realized what the problem was. I had all the other inet_interfaces uncommented too. Now it's showing it's listening on the right interface. However, I still can't connect. Any ideas where to go from here?
 
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I also sent a test message to the account and I got a bounce back saying it failed because "mail for newburyportpchelp.com loops back to
myself" What does that mean?
 
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Where did you send that from?
Did you restart postfix after the config change?
What does the output in netstat -anp look like now?
Is the VM actually configured/permitted to talk to the world via net?
 
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I sent it from my other mail account.
Yes, I restarted.
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:587 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2702/master
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2702/master

Yes, Im running a web server on it that works just fine.
 
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So I'm using Apple Mail as my mail client and here's the error message it gives me when it tries to connect:

"Trying to log into this SMTP account failed. Verify that the username and password are correct (they are). Also verify that the server supports MD5 Challenge response authentication."

What's up with that?
 
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No, which machine is it coming from?
Have you set-up port forwarding from the Windows
machine to the guest for the ports above?
 
  


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