Re: FN-FORUM: receive mail

date posted 30th June 2007 11:42

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:50:52AM -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I've just got myself back onto a fedora server after so long away coping with
> plesk.
> Am in the process of configuring the new machine, mostly with some success
> except for receiving emails. I cant get it to do it....
> The domain name and mail server all resolve to the correct machine, but when i
> send a mail it just disappears into the ether.
> HAve dovecot installed on tghe server and port 110 open in the firewall (same
> result thoughwith firewall disabled).

Dovecot & port 110 will not help the machine receive email, dovecot is an imap
server (port 143) but will also do POP3 (port 110) -- ie it is useful for
serving up email once it has been received & stored on the box.

For the machine to receive email you need to be running an MTA (eg sendmail,
exim or postfix), this will listen on the smtp port (25). Is something listening:

netstat -ltp

will tell you. Did you configure an MTA ?

Have a look in /var/log for error messages.

What is the box for ? If it is test then fedora is fine. Don't run a production
service off fedora -- consider CentOS. Fedora is a development distribution.

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Alain Williams
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