Jesse Kline said: > 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.
So, you are using a machine on the same LAN as the mail server but trying to access it with the mail client using your external (ISP) IP Address as the SMTP/POP3 Server? > 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? So if you were to send an email from something like hotmail to your new dyndns domain name, your email server would receive the email? Cheers, Trevor
