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

[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 open both ways.
> Also, each error I've gotten has been that the target smtp server
> has "Timed Out."  Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> Postfix?  Firewall?  Host or Domain Name resolution?  Other?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Sean
>

at the command line, get the name of one of the servers that's timed  
out.  type "telnet servername 25" and see what happens.  maybe post a  
snippet from the maillog before and after the timeout message.