Hi, Having a problem, here's my story: I did a clean install of Debian Potato Linux on a P100 machine, I did NOT install exim [selected option 5/do not configure mail] when doing the install. I followed the Life With Qmail document to the letter, installing qmail 1.03, the daemontools, and ucspi-tcp. I also installed the POP3 module that came with qmail. The 4 qmail-XXXX processes are running and locally everything seems to work okay [verified with a ps and a qmail-inject to myself from an echo on the command line]. Now, I can send mail from my machine to other local accounts and external domains just fine. I can check POP3 remotely just fine. However my big problem is that I'm not receiving outside mail sent to my domain. I verified DNS is setup correctly and goes to the correct IP address. The bounce message I'm getting is: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection refused by > mail.birthmachine.com. ...on top of this, I can't telnet into my own port 25 [telnet on 127.0.0.1 25 AND outside by IP both fail with "could not open a connection"], which makes me think I'm missing some SMTP daemon/port listener that should have been installed with exim that qmail expects to use. A portscan on my machine verifies that port 25 isn't open. I did absolutely nothing fancy on the qmail/Linux install, haven't installed ANYTHING but what I mentioned above. I'm pretty much a Linux ignoramus and have no idea where to go from here. Thanks in advance for any pointers or help... - John
