[gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

[Erik Westenbroek]

NO!!! I HAVE SBC!!! AND IT HANGS!  I guess I will just have to gateway
through my isp.  Thanks for the help.


On 4/25/06, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote:
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> On 4/25/06 8:47 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <mistereastenstream@×××××.com> wrote:
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> > no, I have a gentoo box and a windows box behind a router, and I don't
> > want anything to do with my ISP's mail.  I just mentioned the router
> > and windows box and all that good stuff to see if 192.168.1.0/24 was
> > right, because I don't really know how CIDR works.  I just fired up
> > mutt from my gentoo box, tried to send an email, and postfix gave me a
> > bunch of connection timed out to smtp.freeshell.org crap.  I can
> > recieve email just fine, I'll email root@××××××××××××××××××××.org, and
> > I log in and go into mutt and voila it is there, but I can't send
> > anything.
> >
> Okay, sorry, just trying to get the picture in my head.  So you send a mail
> from  the gentoo box TO the same gentoo box, what happens? In other
> words,you have a nonroot user "bob" and as root on that box you say "mail -s
> test bob" and send it that way, what happens?  Bear in mind, your isp might
> block outgoing port 25 traffic except to it's servers.  If that's the case,
> you'll have to put their smtp server in as your gateway.
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> If you can send email from root on box to nonroot on box, make another
> client (windows or not) use that box for smtp and send email to nonroot
> users on box.  If that works, we know smtp on that box is listening on
> localhost and on other addresses, and is willing to accept email.
>
> Then try telnet jolet.net 25
> If you hang, your isp is blocking that traffic.  Nothing you can do except
> bitch and make them your gateway.  My co-worker had the same problem with
> sbc.
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Erik

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