The story:
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I've set up a mailserver RH Linux 5.1 running Qmail as my MTA.
The idea being to use OUTLOOK on the PC's to deliver mail to the LINUX
mailserver. The mailserver then dials-up my ISP and delivers all the
external e-mail and collects any new mail.
Now everything works with one exception.
When I send an external e-mail from OUTLOOK on one of the PC's to the LINUX
server via SMTP I get a delivery error saying that the user doesn't exist.
What should happen is that the external mail should be placed in the
~alias/pppdir/new and not bounced back.
However when I send internal mail from OUTLOOK it is delivered to the users
MAILDIR on the server fine.
If I send external email locally from the LINUX mailserver it is delivered
fine to the ~alias/pppdir/new waiting to be sent out to my ISP on the next
connection.
So please can some one shine some light as to why when I send external mail
from OUTLOOK via qmail-smtpd it is returned as undeliverable.
PS I start qmail-smtpd from inetd I know it isn't the preferred way of
doing it but we only have 10 terminal using the mailserver.
When I telnet to port 25 on the server it takes about 1.5 mins before
connecting. However if a ppp link is up it connects immediately. Any help
as to why that happens would also be nice.
Thanks.
Robert
