On 29 Nov, Eric L. Damron wrote:
- For some reason, when I run my firewall, my mail is not being relayed. My
- firewall is just a set of ipchain rules. Here is an example of my maillog
- file. The first entry is something that I sent
- after dropping my firewall and the second is after the firewall is back up:
-
- Nov 29 18:29:43 C287853-A sendmail[12067]: SAA12065: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
- ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp,
- relay=mx-rr.home.com. [24.0.0.194], stat=Sent (SAA24790 Message accepted for
- delivery)
-
- Nov 29 18:31:57 C287853-A sendmail[12244]: SAA12244: from=root, size=216,
- class=0, pri=30216, nrcpts=1,
- msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
- relay=root@localhost
- Nov 29 18:31:57 C287853-A sendmail[12246]: SAA12244: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
- ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
- relay=mx1.home.com. [24.0.0.31], stat=Deferred: Connection refused by
- mx1.home.com.
-
- Notice that the relay refuses a connection when my firewall is up!
-
- Any idea why this would happen?
Just a shot in the dark but try to connecting to port 25 on the remote
host (telnet <hostname> 25). Maybe one of your firewall rules is
preventing the handshake.
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Stephen Carville
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