just a suggestion, have you tried connecting directly to the ip address with the clients? (ie incoming mail: my-ip)
Or is dns correctly resovling your name? > I am a newbie to the Linux/Mandrake arena. I am building a firewall with > Mandrake Single Network Firewall 7.2. I am using Postfix for the MTA. I > installed QPopper 4.0.3 with little problems. I ran the tests on the port > on the firewall and it allowed me to log in and told me I had mail. > However, my workstations run Outlook Express 5.0 and Outlook 97 for mail > clients. The Server seems to timeout when the mail client sends a request > to the server. I have checked the port on the server and it seems to be > fine. I don't seem to find any discrepancies in the log file, it seems > that the client never talks to the server according to the log file. I ran > some basic network tests on the workstation and the server and they are > talking to each other. Is there something in the configuration or am I > missing something in the documentation? Help? > > Thanks > Scott > > -- With best regards, Mike Fahey - Systems Administration ******************************************************************** ENTER.NET - "The Road to the Internet Starts Here!" (tm) (610) 437-2221 * http://www.enter.net/ * email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************
