I believe that my ISP has port 25 closed. I have it opened externally in my firewall and it is still showing as being closed to the internet. Could this have an effect on recieving mail? and if so, how should I fix that?
Thanks Scott Llewellyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems. > alright, this is what I got form dig www.xploited.ca MX > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> www.xploited.ca MX > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;www.xploited.ca. IN MX > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > xploited.ca. 7171 IN SOA ns16.zoneedit.com. soacontact.zoneedit.com. > 1109230065 14400 7200 950400 7200 > > ;; Query time: 62 msec > ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) > ;; WHEN: Tue Jul 05 21:48:32 2005 > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 97 > > > > and here it is just dig www.xploited.ca > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> www.xploited.ca > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;www.xploited.ca. IN A > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > www.xploited.ca. 300 IN A 142.177.224.149 > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > xploited.ca. 3701 IN NS ns13.zoneedit.com. > xploited.ca. 3701 IN NS ns16.zoneedit.com. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > ns16.zoneedit.com. 649 IN A 216.110.187.226 > > ;; Query time: 140 msec > ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) > ;; WHEN: Tue Jul 05 21:49:54 2005 > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 115 > > > Let me know what you think!! > > > Thanks > > Scott > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:23 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems. > > > > > > > > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Scott Llewellyn wrote: > > > > > I recently purchsed my own domain and have been meaning to set up my own > > > person email servers. I use zoneedit for my dns, and from what I > understand > > > you can set up mail through them as well. > > > > > > i decided to try to set it up today and i have almost finished, but im > > > having problem with one thing. I followed the Home Email system tutorial > on > > > gentoo-wiki.com and I've managed to get outgoing email working fine. I > can > > > send to any address from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and all the headers do seem > > > proper. What I can't do is send back to that email address from other > email > > > address, eg a hotmail account. It doesn't bounce back, it just is never > > > recieved. > > > > > > I can connect to the server over imap and smtp on my internal network as > > > well. I do have a firewall in front and I have not opened any email > ports > > > (25 and imaps), but I tried sending from one internal user to another, > and > > > that didn't work either. As well, there are no logs of blocked requests > on > > > thoes ports. > > > > > > I'm not very experience with this accpect of networking. I've set up web > > > servers before, but never and email server and I don't even know where > to > > > look for problems. > > > > > > > > > If anyone requires any config information please let me know, but I did > > > follow that tutorial very closly. > > > > > > > > > I did not setup fetchmail, but from what I could tell that was only user > for > > > recieving emails from external servers, eg your isps email. > > > > When I did this, I found setting up my mx records very tricky. Can you > > post the output from dig? It might point out suspicious settings. > > > > Michael > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
