Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

[John Jolet]

On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings,      I have a partially working Postfix installation.  It delivers messages on the localhost.  It'll receive messages from the internet.  But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet.  I've checked my iptables and port 25 is open both ways.  Also, each error I've gotten has been that the target smtp server has "Timed Out."  Can anyone point me in the right direction?  Postfix?  Firewall?  Host or Domain Name resolution?  Other?    Thank you for your time. Sean   at the command line, get the name of one of the servers that's timed out.  type "telnet servername 25" and see what happens.  maybe post a snippet from the maillog before and after the timeout message.