Hi,
I currently have exim and courier-imap running on a gentoo1.4 box.
I'm having two problems, firstly I can't seem to receive mail (that isn't sent locally), and secondly I can't connect to the SMTP server remotely.
I can send mail to the internet from the local box using "exim -v "foo@bar.com" or mutt. I get no error messages when I send mail to the server (tested from gmx account and hotmail account) but it never arrives.

I can log in and check the mail box on the server with no problems, I just can't receive any mail from the outside world or send mail using a remote MUA.

Do I need more than just exim and courier-imap? Or is the problem in the configuration files?

- cirofren

A few things to check:
1) Is your mx record correct?
2) Do you have any firewall rules?
3) Do you have a public IP for your server or have you configured natting?

mx record is correct.
I do have firewall rules, I'm going to see what happens when I take down the firewall later today.
Not sure what you mean here, if you're asking if other computers can see my computer from the internet then yes they can, I can host a webserver on here with no problems.
- cirofren

Does the server itself have the IP that users connect to or is it a router that has the IP and a port is forwarded to the server? ie does running:
ifconfig

Show the IP address that your A record points to.

What is your domain?

Here's the setup:

[ISP] <--> [Server] <--> [local network].

The server has the ip address of 203.208.89.68 and the domain is shadowice.net. The ip 203.208.89.68 is eth2 on the server, eth 1 is 192.168.10.1, and is the default gateway of the local network. eth0 doesn't work under linux (on board network card) and I don't have the knowlage to get it to, not that it matters, eth1 and eth2 work fine.

Sorry to sound ignorant, but what is an A record?

edit: Nothing changes if I take down the firewall.

I've just checked and you don't seem to have an MX record so I would guess that your problem lies there.

You do need an MX record:

IN MX 0 shadowice.net.

Justin

Well it's all working now and I didn't change any MX records. It was a shorewall problem. I've removed shorewall and I'm now doing the firewall by hand.

Either way, how do I update the MX record?

The MX record? do you have a static IP? It would be with the hoster of your domain, usually. Seems to be zoneedit in your case.