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Last night, Eric was kind
enough to help me with my smtp-auth problem, as it turns out, i had no
problem, lol, my friend who has been working in the IT field for about
15 years, couldn't figure out how to set up smtp-auth. Eric and I agree
that it would be a good idea that we share our emails that we sent back
and forth to each other last night, I'm going to try to keep them in
the same order as they were mailed. message from Eric: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ping -c2 canus.org PING canus.org (206.248.143.18) 56(84) bytes of data. >From canus.org (206.248.139.43) icmp_seq=1 Destination Port Unreachable >From canus.org (206.248.139.43) icmp_seq=2 Destination Port Unreachable --- canus.org ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1000ms [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ Looks like a routing problem. Look closely. Notice, the DNS resolves properly to 206.248.143.19. The IP 206.248.143.19 gets translated to 206.248.139.43. I don't know where/why this happens, but your 206.248.139.43 address, like the message says, is Unreachable. Contact your ISP. I replied: ah yes, but, ping 206.248.143.19 that''ll work or ping mail.canus.org Eric replied: Your server cannot be reached from the outside, so I didn't bother trying anything. It would be pointless. If you can't ping it, you're going nowhere (unless of course there's a firewall blocking the pings). You can send ok because there is somehow appropriate routing set up for your local network. Just because you can route out doesn't mean you can route in. Ask your ISP why, when someone on the outside pings 206.248.143.19, it gets routed to 206.248.139.43. I think that answer might lead to the fix. and, I replied: stupid question, i just pinged mail.canus.org from my local LAN of a 10.x.x.x network, and it doesn't resolve to 206.248.138.43. it just keeps the 206.248.143.19 address. my router is a smoothwall router, and i have the ports open for the mail server, but, some things are set automatically such as the pinging, and unfortunately, i can't change that, so, i was wondering, perhaps, it just won't allow pings to go through, and everything else that i set it to, aka 25,110 etc... i guess what i'm saying, is that perhaps it's my router that's doing this, so, can you just give it a shot to see what happens, maybe just for pings it's not working and asked Eric if he would mind to try the smtp-auth Eric replied: It ain't going to fly. It's not (just) the ping that gets re-routed, it's the 206.248.138.19 address being routed to 206.248.138.43. That's why it's failing. Do you have any idea where 206.248.138.43 comes from? and Eric again replied with some great news thanx Eric: Chris, Please accept my apology. I don't know how or why, but thunderbird is working just fine. I also checked out your webmail, and it's ok too. Skins look very nice. -- Sorry about that. Yes, things are working find from here (except pings of course!) I use the IPCop firewall distro. It's somehow related to smoothwall, but I don't recall the specifics. I highly recommend it. Web based admin, all sorts of bells and whistles. Solid as a rock. I replied:, I asked Eric if he would like to see my Webmail, i'm not using squirrelmail, i'm using a theme, which is built from squirrelmail, it's from www.voxthemes.com, this is Eric's reply to that: Are these open source? That last message I sent went from my server. This time I'm configured for smtp on your box. I replied: can you send me some screenshots of how you have thunderbird set up, or outlook my friend couldn't get connected and thanx Eric, I really appreciate it I forgot that I was supposed to be testing your smtp. I configured it, it asked for the pw, and out it went. Yes it works! yeah, i'll check out that firewall, does it support 3 homed (ISP - LAN - DMZ)? Yep. They call them red (outside), orange (dmz) and green (lan) interfaces. They even have a blue for wireless. Pretty sweet. Installation is a breeze. I have an old e-machines box I converted into a (headless) firewall w/ IPCop. Works like a charm. It even has VPN built in, along with the usual stuff (DHCP, hostnames, caching DNS, you name it). may i ask how you set it up, thunderbird that is?, screen shots I just set t-bird up with smtp.canus.org, port 25, user name [EMAIL PROTECTED]. You didn't forget to include the domain with the user name, did you? I think the trick with outlook is to tell it to use authorization, or signin or something like that. Note, I configured t-bird to use *no* secure connection. Not TLS if available, not TLS, not SSL. Simply *no* secure connection. regarding Voxthemes: Are these open source?yes, they are, but at a cost, very low cost, i believe somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 bucks, i really like it How can they be open source if there's a cost? Jake and I are putting together a QT-Plus package (in very early development). It would have been nice to include it. yahoo, as they say, i'm happier than pig in shit, here's the output of the smtp log: @4000000044f50d0816ced824 tcpserver: end 9446 status 0 @4000000044f50d0816cef764 tcpserver: status: 0/100 @4000000044f50d1e1a7ab59c tcpserver: status: 1/100 @4000000044f50d1e1a7ad4dc tcpserver: pid 9470 from 130.13.157.174 @4000000044f50d1e1a7ae47c tcpserver: ok 9470 mail.canus.org:206.248.143.19:25 :1 30.13.157.174::39595 @4000000044f50d1f0e1c53dc CHKUSER accepted sender: from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]:toast [EMAIL PROTECTED]:> remote <[192.168.70.31]:unknown:130.13.157.174> rcpt <> : sender accepted @4000000044f50d1f308326bc CHKUSER accepted rcpt: from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]:toaster @canus.org:> remote <[192.168.70.31]:unknown:130.13.157.174> rcpt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] rg> : found existing recipient @4000000044f50d200d6a68fc simscan:[9470]:RELAYCLIENT:0.2328s:-:130.13.157.174:to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That should pretty much cover it, Eric, did i leave anything out? And thanx again Eric, I appreciate it Ed Morrison wrote: Eric "Shubes" wrote:--------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted |
