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
>
>

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Mike Fahey - Systems Administration
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