Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame solution to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to their own SMTP server, so your mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame solution to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Shields
A tad off-topic, but John, why don't you setup a mailing list and have the PTA members join?On 9/23/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it.I didn't think the ISP would block

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread kashani
Neil Bothwick wrote: Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame solution to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to their own SMTP server, so your mail may not be delivered directly, but it is delivered. Even if port 25 isn't blocked or redirected, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:20:50 -0500, kashani wrote: I worked at probably the first nation wide US ISP to block port 25 to any address other than our mail servers. While it was sad to see the days of free and clear access to smtp dying there really wasn't much choice. There is,

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 23 September 2005 10:52, Dave Nebinger wrote: John I'd suggest yahoo - they have a groups section where you can set up a mailing list - they host the list, you just handle the posting. yeah, but they put ads at the bottom and you have no control over what is in the ad...I'm a bit of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread kashani
Neil Bothwick wrote: There is, redirecting port 25 traffic. I discovered an ISP was doing this by accident, when I switched to my backup ISP and forgot to change my mail settings. It was only later that I realised mail was still going out, despite my software being set to use a different ISP's

[gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
Title: Message Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation. It delivers messages on the localhost. It'll receive messages from the internet. But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet. I've checked my iptables and port 25 is open both ways. Also, each error

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation.  It delivers messages on the localhost.  It'll receive messages from the internet.  But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet.  I've checked my iptables and port 25

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
one of their users. -Original Message- From: Sean Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:07 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet Greetings, I have a partially working

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:06:34PM -0400, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation. It delivers messages on the localhost. It'll receive messages from the internet. But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet. I've checked my

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Many ISP's route all outgoing port 25 traffic to a black hole (as in they drop the packets not going to their smtp servers). You just need to configure postfix to push all your mail to your ISP's mail server. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
receives OK, but won't send to internet Many ISP's route all outgoing port 25 traffic to a black hole (as in they drop the packets not going to their smtp servers). You just need to configure postfix to push all your mail to your ISP's mail server. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings