This is the error I get back from telnet C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>telnet mail 25 Connecting To mail...Could not open connection to the host, on port 25: Connect failed
Also to the best of my knowledge there is no firewall running. I also have this in my main.cf mynetworks = 127.0.0.0./8 192.168.0.0/24 192.168.1.0/24 So any client that is on my network should be able to connect, no? Thanks! On 8/14/07, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Tom Misilo wrote: > > > Thanks for the replies. > > > > I am trying to use cyrus to handle the pop3/imap requests. > > > Also, would I be better of using another piece of software instead of > > cyrus? > > Cyrus is highly scalable (moreso than most), but some aspects of it are a > little unusual -- eg how you do server-side filtering, etc. It is not an > unreasonable choice, although depending on the size of your project you > might find something like dovecot a little easier to set up and maintain. > > > I am sending mail from the localhost using alpine. setting it to > > localhost fixed that error. but when I tail the mail.log file this is > > what I get > > > > Aug 14 08:34:15 linus postfix/smtp[13788]: C4B5598131: > > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=214, delays=64/0.07/150/0, > > dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to > > alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[72.14.215.114]: Connection timed out) > > So now it's accepted your emails, but it can't connect to google.com to > deliver them, apprently because something's stopping it from connecting to > 72.14.215.114 on port 25. I'd presume that's a firewall rule somewhere as > I see it fine: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet 72.14.215.114 25 > Trying 72.14.215.114... > Connected to 72.14.215.114. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 mx.google.com ESMTP y1si2317953hua > > > I still cannot "telnet mail 25" from another computer on network. But > > it works fine if I run it on the server. Any suggestions? > > Again the error telnet gives back is all important. "Connection refused" > suggests postfix is probably only listening on 127.0.0.1 (a postfix config > issue). "No route to host" or "connection timed out" probably suggests a > firewall is blocking you. "Connection closed" might be postfix replying > and immediately closing the connection (not so likely). > > It seems like you may have some sort of firewall on the mail server that's > causing most of these problems. I'd suggest you turn off the firewall for > 5 minutes and see do the problems go away. If it does, you need to > configure the firewall properly to allow connections in and out on tcp port > 25. > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- Tom Misilo AIM:Tmisilo FL Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tmisilo.ath.cx -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
