Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems.

[Scott Llewellyn]

I believe that my ISP has port 25 closed. I have it opened externally in my
firewall and it is still showing as being closed to the internet.  Could
this have an effect on recieving mail? and if so, how should I fix that?

Thanks

Scott Llewellyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Llewellyn" <mirv@××××××××××××.ca>
To: <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems.


> alright, this is what I got form   dig www.xploited.ca MX
>
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> www.xploited.ca MX
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.xploited.ca.  IN MX
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> xploited.ca.  7171 IN SOA ns16.zoneedit.com. soacontact.zoneedit.com.
> 1109230065 14400 7200 950400 7200
>
> ;; Query time: 62 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Jul 05 21:48:32 2005
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 97
>
>
>
> and here it is just  dig www.xploited.ca
>
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> www.xploited.ca
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.xploited.ca.  IN A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.xploited.ca. 300 IN A 142.177.224.149
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> xploited.ca.  3701 IN NS ns13.zoneedit.com.
> xploited.ca.  3701 IN NS ns16.zoneedit.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns16.zoneedit.com. 649 IN A 216.110.187.226
>
> ;; Query time: 140 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Jul 05 21:49:54 2005
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 115
>
>
> Let me know what you think!!
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <michael@×××××××××××××.com>
> To: <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems.
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Scott Llewellyn wrote:
> >
> > > I recently purchsed my own domain and have been meaning to set up my
own
> > > person email servers.  I use zoneedit for my dns, and from what I
> understand
> > > you can set up mail through them as well.
> > >
> > > i decided to try to set it up today and i have almost finished, but im
> > > having problem with one thing. I followed the Home Email system
tutorial
> on
> > > gentoo-wiki.com and I've managed to get outgoing email working fine.
I
> can
> > > send to  any address from user@××××××××.ca and all the headers do seem
> > > proper. What I can't do is send back to that email address from other
> email
> > > address, eg a hotmail account.  It doesn't bounce back, it just is
never
> > > recieved.
> > >
> > > I can connect to the server over imap and smtp on my internal network
as
> > > well.   I do have a firewall in front and I have not opened any email
> ports
> > > (25 and imaps), but I tried sending from one internal user to another,
> and
> > > that didn't work either.  As well, there are no logs of blocked
requests
> on
> > > thoes ports.
> > >
> > > I'm not very experience with this accpect of networking. I've set up
web
> > > servers before, but never and email server and I don't even know where
> to
> > > look for problems.
> > >
> > >
> > > If anyone requires any config information please let me know, but I
did
> > > follow that tutorial very closly.
> > >
> > >
> > > I did not setup fetchmail, but from what I could tell that was only
user
> for
> > > recieving emails from external servers, eg your isps email.
> >
> > When I did this, I found setting up my mx records very tricky. Can you
> > post the output from dig? It might point out suspicious settings.
> >
> > Michael
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> >
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