On 2006/05/16 01:15, SkyBlueshoes wrote: > I've just installed OpenBSD 3.8...my first ever *nix. I've got most up > and running, but I'm having problems recieving email. I followed the > guidelines on this page http://www.nomoa.com/bsd/mailServer.htm to the > letter. All the localhost tests work, but when I try to send a test > message from out of the domain I never get it. Also, I am not sure what > my domain would be, but I tried sending to both > [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED] skyblue.mine.nu is > my registered domain name, but the full name of my server is, as you'd > guess, server.skyblue.mine.nu.
$ dig server.skyblue.mine.nu any ;server.skyblue.mine.nu. IN ANY server.skyblue.mine.nu. 43027 IN CNAME skyblue.mine.nu. $ dig skyblue.mine.nu any ;skyblue.mine.nu. IN ANY skyblue.mine.nu. 60 IN A 24.0.102.157 server.skyblue.mine.nu is a CNAME; don't list these in MX records. >From a DNS point of view you're OK to use @skyblue.mine.nu which is an A record, (hosts sending mail lookup first MX records and if that fails they try A records instead). $ telnet skyblue.mine.nu 25 Trying 24.0.102.157... <long pause, I gave up waiting>^C $ telnet skyblue.mine.nu 80 Trying 24.0.102.157... Connected to skyblue.mine.nu. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 03:02:30 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.4.1 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7g X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Connection closed by foreign host. Normally if you try and connect to a port where there's no program listening for connections you'll just get 'connection refused', so here are some possibilities: 1. you've configured a firewall (or maybe port-forwarding on a NAT router) to allow port 80 to work, but to drop port 25 2. your ISP filters incoming SMTP (port 25) to your machine.
