On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
> 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.
Also note that it's senting to two seperate relays in the above examples,
and that it's posible that "mx1.home.com" is/was down. But not seeing any
ipchains rules we can only guess.
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