First, *where* is "outside"? Is this system connected to the Internet, and you are trying to send mail to it from a place that is truly off-site? Or is "outside" another machine on the same LAN? Or something else? (You refer to your "Webmail" but do not say where that is coming from.)
Second, do you have qmail running in daemon mode? That is, is it (or is anything) listening on port 25? You can check this with "netstat -ln". You can also just check the process list to see if the daemon is running ("ps ax |grep qmail", assuming the daemon is either qmail or qmaild). OR you can try to telnet to port 25 on the host ansd see if you get a response ("telnet [hostname] 25"). If nothing is listening on port 25, the mail cannot be delivered (and it might be queued for sending for as long as a week, depending on the practice at your Webmail site, so you might not know that this is the cause for quite some time).
Third, how is your Linux host connected to the Internet? Does it have a "real" (routable) IP address or a "private" (non-routable) one? If the latter, is whatever you are using to NAT the LAN allowing incoming SMTP traffic to reach the Linux server (different "whatevers" do this in different ways, but the generic concept is port forwarding)?
I don't ue fetchmail myself, so I can't really offer suggestions about where to begin looking into that particular problem. I don't even havet the man page installed locally, so I can't readily check if it needs a running SMTP daemon (anyone?) or if it starts up its own copy of your MTA.
At 05:51 PM 3/20/2003 +0100, Kurt Sys wrote:
Eello again,[old stuff deleted]
I tried to make my homework as good as possible. I reinstalled 'everything', so
all permissions are now default values, except the ones in my homedir. I was
able to solve some (other) problems with qmail. Now, I can send mail using
qmail. I can receive mail whenever I send a message from my machine to my
machine (so local mail delivery is ok).
I can not send a message from 'outside' (so I send from my webmail to my 'local'
mailbox [EMAIL PROTECTED]) nor can I receive any messages present on a
mail-server (allserv.rug.ac.be, which is not mine).
If I send a message from my webmail (I consider this as 'mailing from another
machine) to my local address, it's not delivered and I do not get an error
message (yet, i.e. after a few hours). So, apparently, it tries to write to
'somewhere', but it doesn't work. I can't find anything in my log-files.
If I 'fetchmail' my mail from the webserver (so, the 'allerv.rug.ac.be'), it
fetches that mail, but it doesn't deliver the mail. I know it fetches the mail
since it is removed from the server if I don't set the 'keep'-value (which keeps
the mail on the server).
So, my mail cannot be delivered if it comes from 'outside'. Permissions are all
'default' values, except the ones in my homedir. Now, I see nothing special
about these (and very 'open'):
755 for /home/kurt
755 for /home/kurt/.mydata (where mail-files and 'inbox' is, after it is taken
from /var/mail/kurt)
755 for /home/kurt/.mydata/inbox (file with my mail)
600 for /home/kurt/.fetchmailrc
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