Well I can telnet to mail.azlin.com port 25, but maybe his friends ISP is blocking access to port 25.
Only thing I see unusual is the DNS info azlin.com. 6925 IN MX 0 mail.azlin.com. azlin.com. 6925 IN MX 100 mx2.zoneedit.com. I can't remember if 0 is a valid precedence or not. Bill >---------- >From: Jeff Buehler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:14 AM >To: xmail@xmailserver.org >Subject: [xmail] Re: Can't send email from outside of my LAN > > >Try telneting to the SMTP port (25) to make certain it isn't blocked. >Your ISP may be blocking port 25 (most of them are these days). > >i.e. telnet mail.yourdomain.com 25 > >or by ip > >telnet xx.xxx.xxx.xx 25 > >Jeff > >Larry Azlin wrote: > >>Greetings. >> >>I run Xmail 1.21 on a SUSE 9.0 box to host my personal email >>(azlin.com), and all's well if the laptop running my email client >>(Thunderbird) is on my LAN. Recently I've been taking the laptop over >>to a friend's house and trying to send email from there, w/o success. >>I can GET email from my Xmail server, I just can't SEND through it. >> >>I've modified smtprelay.tab to include the ip at my friend's house, so >>it now looks like: >> >>"192.168.0.0"[TAB]"255.255.0.0" >>"xxx.xxx.xxx.0"[TAB]"255.255.255.0" >> >>And I've verified that smtp.ipmap.tab is correct: >> >>"0.0.0.0"[TAB]"0.0.0.0"[TAB]"ALLOW"[TAB]1 >> >>Just to be sure, I've also looked at my pop3 log files and verified >>that I've got his ip address correct. Yet, when I try to send email, >>there's a long delay while Thunderbird is trying to send, and I get an >>"unable to access server" type of message. I'm betting that there's >>something simple which I need to do in addition to the above changes >>.... can anyone point me in the right direction? >> >>TIA, >>Larry Azlin >> >>P.S. I restarted Xmail after these changes. >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>http://mail.yahoo.com >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
