On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 00:11, Jesse Kline wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent posting by Shawn trying to get an e-mail server running > inspired me to do the same. I seem to be doing fairly well so far. I > setup an account with dyndns and I am running the client on the mail > server. I'm not sure if it works, but dyndns does have my correct IP > address at the moment so so far so good. > I setup evolution on the mail server to do some testing. From there I > can send e-mail through my mail server to my telus account. I can also > send mail from my telus account and receive it through my mail server. > The problem is that when I try to setup a mail client on my other > machine, and have it go though the Internet to send and receive mail > from my mail server it cannot connect to the smtp or pop3 servers. > From within my LAN I am able to telnet into both ports 25 and 110, > however if I try to telnet through the Internet address my connection is > refused. I have setup the port forwarding on my router and it seems to > be working since I can send and receive mail on the mail server through > the Internet. I'm not quite sure where to go from here. What am I > missing? >
Well for starters you need to make sure that pop3 is turned on in xinetd. Then make sure your firewall isn't blocking requests. Also make sure you hosts.allow and hosts.deny files are setup to allow pop3 from the right computers and deny from the other computers. SMTP relaying is a little more complicated. Your distro's sendmail package will come with relaying off for everyone but local host. You will need to add your client machines or private network to the email servers list of relayed hosts. Relaying is handled by the access file generally found in /etc/mail. Once you have made changes to access file you need to make a new access.db file, the method of which escapes me at this time. Then restart sendmail. regards, -- Mark Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
