On Wed, July 21, 2004 8:59 pm, Shaun Oliver said: > Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:02:09PM +1000, > spake thus. >> well yeah 110 if you want your pop3 server to be visible... 25 if you >> want >> your sendmail server to be accessible... >> > I think the problem is > he's not getting mail in from the ISP's servers. > Simon, correct me if I'm wrong here. > if you wanted to use your own smtp serup, then yes you'd forward port 25 > to the machine running sendmail. > a better idea would be to use your ISP's own mailserver as a smarthost > for the time being unless you have your own domain and you want to use > your own mta. > as for getting the mail in, I would have thought there would have been > no need for any jiggery pokery. > just my 2 bob worth
Yes we have our own domain and want to use our own server. Mail does go out OK, but nothing seems to come in and ...........it just occurred to me that the previous ISP may not have adjusted the internet mail records (MX??), will ring them and find out. > -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
