Beating my head against the email wall - cannot receive email
Greetings -
I'm killing myself trying to figure out how to receive email to my server. I can send email all day without any problems, but am yet to receive a single email not sent locally. I'm using exim4 to send, mutt to read. What else do I need to do? I'm really at a loss. MX record via dig: Code:
dazed@duff:~$ dig mx grimdar.com What other information can I supply you with? Any help is sincerely appreciated. |
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[chort@horus4 chort]$ dig +short mail.grimdar.com |
If there is no mail.grimdar.com box, where do you expect incoming mail to come to? The MX record is what all remote servers use to look up the mailservers handling delivery for grimdar.com. If you want to point mail to, say, server1.grimdar.com, change the MX record to reflect that.
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rolf@asgard:~$ telnet duff.grimdar.com 25 |
For more information, I hope, here is a tail of my /var/log/exim4/mainlog - which has really never shown any errors. I sent out a test email from duff.grimdar.com to my comcast.net email, which worked as expected and has always worked.
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2008-09-01 06:24:15 End queue run: pid=5170 |
duff.grimdar.com doesn't resolve to an IP address at all for me. And
http://www.mxtoolbox.com tells me that it isn't just me that can't resolve duff.grimdar.com! mail.grimdar.com did resolve - it's just that it's port was blocked. The MX record should point (eventually) to a valid, globally resolveable name from which an IP address can be obtained from every DNS server in the world. The computer at that IP address needs port 25 open and to have mail server software running. You haven't got the first step working. |
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All that log says is that it sent an email to Comcast. That's got nothing to do with you recieving email addressed to @yourdomain.com |
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In order to receive mail, the following conditions (among others) must be true:
Right now, I can resolve duff.grimdar.com, but not connect to port 25. It appears that host is using Comcast for an ISP. I would check and see if Comcast is blocking connections to port 25. If it is a residential connection, I would strongly suspect this to be the case. |
I have comcast - and to my knowledge they haven't been blocking port 25 (although I wouldn't doubt it... it is comcast). You prolly have already done this, but make sure your router forwards port 25 to your machine. Make sure any firewall on your machine is allowing port 25 to be open.
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Are you as a comcast user able to telnet to port 25 from outside your domain? I am not. |
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