On Sun January 25 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > I'm just setting up postfix and trying to get email from my new dyndns > > account. > > In other words: you want to be able to receive mail for your DynDNS > domain on your local system? That is probably a bad idea, since every > time your public IP address changes, mail can get lost. I really advise > against this.
that's what Dyndns does, it gives me a static hostname for my dynamic IP.. see dyndns.org > > > Technical details of temporary failure: > > The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more > > at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7720 > > [paulandcilla.homelinux.org (1): Connection timed out] > > You have to do two things: make port 25 on the machine running Postfix > be visible from the internet. You probably have to make your router do > port forwarding. Then you have to configure Postfix to accept mail from > the outside. Beware not to create an "open relay", otherwise your system > will become a gateway for spam in no time. Doh! yup.. I had to do that for my web site and for ssh.. That will probably do it. I was thinking it was a Postfix config issue, but you are probably right, it will end up being a port issue. thanks! > > But I still think that's a bad idea. If you want to run your own > mailserver, think about spending a few dollars a month for a linux > server with a static IP address. That's what I do. This is just a practice setup for me. I will eventually run my own mailserver for my domain.. but first, before I screw up the mail for my domain, I'll play with this dyndns domain. and lots of dyndns services are FREE.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org