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11-20-2004, 08:29 AM
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postfix - Help
I can't recieve any external mail??? Postfix 2.1 I have tryed everything.
mandrake 10.0
postfix 2.1
fetchmail
I have MX record shows "10 my.host.mydomain"
I have dydns to my box, I can telnet to port 25 ok, I can send/recieve email internally.
Main.cf
inet_interfaces = all
?????????? please help
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11-20-2004, 01:26 PM
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Welcome to LQ.
Have you confirmed that your ISP is not blocking incomming port 25?
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11-21-2004, 06:37 AM
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I asked them and they tell me they don't block port 25. I tried sendmail also. I get the same problem.????
Thanks for any help you could give.
Last edited by mscomputers; 11-21-2004 at 06:41 AM.
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11-21-2004, 07:51 AM
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Can you post the output from:
netstat -nlp
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11-21-2004, 09:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by david_ross
Welcome to LQ.
Have you confirmed that your ISP is not blocking incomming port 25?
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I have been testing this ??? I not sure but maybe they are blocking incomming on port 25. Any suggestions on how to confirm this ???
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11-21-2004, 10:34 AM
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1) Ask your ISP.
2) When you know that your smtp server is working ask a friend to try connecting to port 35 on your system.
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