On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:18:29PM -0700, Jason Karuza wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:18:29 -0700 > From: Jason Karuza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [exim] Exim Can Send But Can't Receive > To: [email protected] > > This is my first time emailing to the list. I have searched around for > solutions. I apologize if this does not follow any standard procedures. > > Here is my configuration: > Exim4 > Cygwin > Windows XP > AT&T DSL (SBC) > > For several months I had my mail server working fine. Near the end of last > week I discovered that Exim was no longer receiving email but could still > send mail out. I don't recall changing any configuration settings which > would leads me to believe it is something out of my hands, but I want to try > to narrow down where the connection is broken and go from there.
Have those nice Windows people turned on a firewall in one of their updates. Has your ISP stopped inbound port 25 connections? Trying to telnet to the MX holder of karuza.com gives nothing. $ telnet jasonk.hopto.org 25 Trying 69.237.44.33... > My exim_main.log traditionally would update any time an email received. > Currently, nothing is being appended to that or any other log when I try to > send an email to the server. I am hosting a few domains: karuza.com, > list2text.com, and bhhsdrumline.com which can all still be viewed with > regards to Apache and HTTP so I don't think it is a domain direction > problem. Just port 25 then. > I spoke with AT&T support chat three times yesterday. They have no > understanding of mail servers and Exim. They are used to problems with > Outlook and webmail, so getting them to help is an issue but I am thinking > it's either something they did without notifying me or somehow services are > not set up right on my server now. An ISP that doesn't understand mail servers. Wow. > I have exim using SMTP on port 25 to send mail. I have inetd set up to > listen on pop and imap ports as per the tutorial here: > http://pigtail.net/LRP/exim/exim-cygwin.html You have Exim listening on port 25 to receive mail. IMAP and POP3 are irrelevant here. > echo -e 'Subject: Testr\nOi' | exim [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] That's a new one for me. Try: telnet localhost 25 You should get a line that starts: 220 -- One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
