RE: Connecting to my email server..

[Tim Hunter]

When I attempt to connect to telnet mail.foobar.com 25 I get mail.foobar.com: Unknown host   I will make two assumptions, 1) mail.foobar.com does not exist (DNS broke,etc) 2) your domain is not foobar.com and you are editing the output of qmail-showctl   Please send us the TRUE information since dealing with mailservers is often a DNS issue   also send us the commands you use to start qmail -----Original Message----- From: Steve Peace(Internal) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Connecting to my email server.. First off, let me thank everyone in this mailing list for assiting me in setting up my qmail server.  Within about 4 weeks, I now have a functioning server that will send and receive email from the internet and internally.  A special koodoos to Dave Sill for writing LWQ.  Your Document was a huge amount of help.  I now have a server running on RedHat 6.1 with Qmail 1.03.  I seem to be having one problem.  My server sits behind a NAT firewall.  I have 2 NICs in my server, one with an internal non routeable adrress, and another with a real ip address that my new ISP has given to me.  I contacted my former/other provider that is hosting our website and also registered our domain, to get the MX records changed to point to my new mail server.  This has been done as far as I can tell.  when I do a nslookup on mail.foobar.com I get back the correct address.  Also I can receive email from the outside world.  My problem lies with attaching to mail.foobar.com.  When I am behind the firewall I can attach to mail.int.foobar.com and everything is working, but when I try to attach to mail.foobar.com, I time out.  Listed below is the output of qmail-showctl.  It all seems to be OK when I look at it, but I'm just a newbie.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. qmail home directory: /var/qmail. user-ext delimiter: -. paternalism (in decimal): 2. silent concurrency limit: 120. subdirectory split: 23. user ids: 501, 502, 503, 0, 504, 505, 506, 507. group ids: 501, 502. badmailfrom: bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON. bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is foobar.com. concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10. concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20. databytes: SMTP DATA limit is 20000000 bytes. defaultdomain: Default domain name is foobar.com. defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is foobar.com. doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: foobar.com. doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster. envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is foobar.com. helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is foobar.com. idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is foobar.com. localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes foobar.com. locals: Messages for mail.foobar.com are delivered locally. Messages for foobar.com are delivered locally. me: My name is foobar.com. percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed. plusdomain: Plus domain name is foobar.com. qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers. queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds. rcpthosts: SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at foobar.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mail.foobar.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mail.int.foobar.com. morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect. morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect. smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 foobar.com. smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes. timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds. timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds. timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds. virtualdomains: (Default.) No virtual domains.