Re: FN-FORUM: receive mail

date posted 30th June 2007 16:40

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:58:49PM -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> thanks Alain
>
> > What can you see in /var/log/exim ? You should see a file called mainlog
> > That will tell you what is happening.
>
> they say nothing about mail from outside
>
> > Are the permissions on /var/spool/mail correct ?
>
> no - changed main recipient to chmod 660
> locally sent mail receiving ok now
>
> >
> > ????????ps | mail -s test john
>
> receives fine
>
> >
> > TCP port 25 is what you need in the firewall.
>
> port 25 is open but logs say:
> exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=4765, -q1h, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv6
> with IPv4) port 587 (IPv6 and IPv4) and for SMTPS on port 465 (IPv6 and IPv4

That looks OK. Anything in the mail queue -- type 'mailq' ?

> > What happens when you go:
> >
> > ????????telnet machinename 25
>
> I get: Connection refused

What does
iptables -L
tell you ?

Either firewall on the box or some other firewall.

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