I noticed too that he has postfix on port 25 220 ***.eclipticdreams.com ESMTP Postfix (1.1.11) (Mandrake Linux)
that could be part of the problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nigel George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [courier-users] SMTP > > 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 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
