Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Jonathan Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame "solution" to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to their own SMTP server, so your mail may not be delivered directly, but it is delivered. Having run a mail server from home, that's not th

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread kashani
Neil Bothwick wrote: There is, redirecting port 25 traffic. I discovered an ISP was doing this by accident, when I switched to my backup ISP and forgot to change my mail settings. It was only later that I realised mail was still going out, despite my software being set to use a different ISP's se

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 23 September 2005 10:52, Dave Nebinger wrote: > John I'd suggest yahoo - they have a groups section where you can set up a > mailing list - they host the list, you just handle the posting. yeah, but they put ads at the bottom and you have no control over what is in the ad...I'm a bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:20:50 -0500, kashani wrote: > I worked at probably the first nation wide US ISP to block port > 25 to any address other than our mail servers. While it was sad to see > the days of free and clear access to smtp dying there really wasn't > much choice. There is, redir

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
That would be the same problem; mailing lists still have to send mail from the originating host.   John I’d suggest yahoo – they have a groups section where you can set up a mailing list – they host the list, you just handle the posting.       A tad off-topic, but John, why don't yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread kashani
Neil Bothwick wrote: Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame "solution" to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to their own SMTP server, so your mail may not be delivered directly, but it is delivered. Even if port 25 isn't blocked or redirected, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Shields
A tad off-topic, but John, why don't you setup a mailing list and have the PTA members join?On 9/23/05, John Jolet < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it.  I didn't think the ISP would block

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame "solution" to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all por

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: > That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame "solution" to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to their own SMTP server, so your mail

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
r] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet Many ISP's route all outgoing port 25 traffic to a black hole (as in they drop the packets not going to their smtp servers). You just need to configure postfix to push all your mail to your ISP's mail server. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean L

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Many ISP's route all outgoing port 25 traffic to a black hole (as in they drop the packets not going to their smtp servers). You just need to configure postfix to push all your mail to your ISP's mail server. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working Po

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:06:34PM -0400, Sean Lester wrote: > Greetings, > I have a partially working Postfix installation. It delivers > messages on the localhost. It'll receive messages from the internet. > But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet. I've > checked my ip

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Title: Message Your ISP may be blocking port 25 outside of their own network.   Most likely you need to configure postfix to relay mail through your ISP’s mail server rather than just use your own.   A lot of ISP’s do this so they don’t have to handle complaints about spam originating

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation.  It delivers messages on the localhost.  It'll receive messages from the internet.  But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet.  I've checked my iptables and port 25 is