does local email from the box manage to make it to the outside world?

if yes: are you running a firewall, or on a NATted IP address?
if no: is your ethernet interface up? (ifconfig -a)

-j

    > Hi,
    >   I've got most of Courier 0.40 working on my Mandrake 9 machine. I've 
    > got webadmin working, and I've got webmail working. Emailing from the 
    > webmail works fine no problems.
    >   I can email "local" accounts using the webmail interface fine. But when 
    > I try to send an email to one of the accounts from an external source I 
    > don't get it. I don't get an undelivered message from the sending 
    > address, but it just doesn't arrive in my maildir.
    >   As a test I've tried to telnet to the box on port 25 from itself, works 
    > fine.
    > 
    > ---------------
    > [root@*** sbin]# telnet localhost 25
    > Trying 127.0.0.1...
    > Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
    > Escape character is '^]'.
    > 220 ***.eclipticdreams.com ESMTP Postfix (1.1.11) (Mandrake Linux)
    > ---------------
    > 
    >   Telnetting to the same IP:PORT from a different box however doesn't 
    > yield a response.
    >   Can anyone offer me a solution to what I've done wrong? I'm vey new to 
    > this and sorry if this is a dumb problem on my part.
    > 
    > Thanks in advance
    > 
    >   - Nigel
    > 
    > 



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