John Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. Starting qmail does not start the SMTP daemon. YOu have to start that separately. If it was RedHat, with Bruce Guenter's startup scripts, you do: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smtpd start But I haven't used Debian since 1.3, and don't know how qmail is packaged for Debian. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
