I would tend to agree. This doesn't look like a Squirrelmail issue, but an issue with your MTA not being able to contact other mail servers.
I would do as John and Peter have suggested. From the mail server, try using telnet to connect to other mail servers. An example done under Linux, but is applicable for any Unix/Linux variant. A '*' denotes where you type in a command, the rest is responses from the server. (So remove the asterisk when typing your commands) * [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet mail.example.net 25 Trying 11.222.3.444... Connected to mail.example.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.example.net ESMTP Ready on Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:58:51 -0700 [b.mail] * HELO example.com 250 b.mail.example.net Hello 208-201-244-72.dsl.static.sonic.net [208.201.244.72], pleased to meet you * mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 2.1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender ok * rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient ok * data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself * Test message * . 250 2.0.0 j88Iwpw7025433 Message accepted for delivery * quit 221 2.0.0 b.mail.example.net closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. If you aren't able to connect to the target mail server using telnet from your mail server, then this would require more investigation on your part. If you need help with this, I suggest contacting any support resources for your MTA software or Linux distribution. If you are using OSS for your MTA, here's some resources for various popular MTAs: Postfix - - Web http://www.postfix.org/ - IRC #postfix on irc.freenode.net Sendmail - - Web http://www.sendmail.org/ - or- http://sial.org/sendmail/ - IRC #sendmail on irc.freenode.net Exim - - Web http://www.exim.org/ - IRC #exim on irc.freenode.net Hope that helps! - Chris Wagner Jonathan Angliss wrote: > Hello Nick Fisher, > On Thursday, September 08, 2005, you wrote: > > >Hi, > > >My SM setup (1.4) has ceased to send mail properly. All mail I send > >to external domains is not sent through, and I either don't hear > >anything about it, or I recieve a message like the following a few > hours later > > >****************** > >The original message was received at Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:06:59 -0500 > >from localhost [127.0.0.1] > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection timed out with > *addressee server* > >Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours > >Will keep trying until message is 5 days old > >****************** > > >Mail that I send within my domain, however, goes through fine. > > >I am setup to use SMTP, localhost, on port 25. As it is a web-based > >server, I can't see any problem with firewalls, and their details > >have certainly not changed recently. > > >Any ideas anyone? > > > This isn't an issue with SM, but with your SMTP server talking out. > Have you tested to see if you are able to connect to SMTP servers > outside of your network? For example try: > > telnet mx1.hotmail.com 25 > > See if that connects. Do you get the same issue with all domains you > try to send to? > > -- > Jonathan Angliss > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=ane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
