I recently purchsed my own domain and have been meaning to set up my own person email servers. I use zoneedit for my dns, and from what I understand you can set up mail through them as well.
i decided to try to set it up today and i have almost finished, but im having problem with one thing. I followed the Home Email system tutorial on gentoo-wiki.com and I've managed to get outgoing email working fine. I can send to any address from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and all the headers do seem proper. What I can't do is send back to that email address from other email address, eg a hotmail account. It doesn't bounce back, it just is never recieved. I can connect to the server over imap and smtp on my internal network as well. I do have a firewall in front and I have not opened any email ports (25 and imaps), but I tried sending from one internal user to another, and that didn't work either. As well, there are no logs of blocked requests on thoes ports. I'm not very experience with this accpect of networking. I've set up web servers before, but never and email server and I don't even know where to look for problems. If anyone requires any config information please let me know, but I did follow that tutorial very closly. I did not setup fetchmail, but from what I could tell that was only user for recieving emails from external servers, eg your isps email. Thanks for any help anyone can be! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
