Email not working

Hello. I run redhat 8 and just installed qmail (sorry...not suer the
version atm).

I for some reason cannot receieve email... I maed an account and
domain/etc.... I forwarded port 25 to my mail server. but I don't get
mail. I even ran a port sniffer on my mail server... and tried to
send myself mail (using hotmail) and I never say any packets come
through. I even turned off my firewall (iptables).

can any of you telnet to 24.71.223.142?

Do any of you have any tools that can tell what's wrong with that ip
address? I don't think I'm blocking anything... but maybe it's
because I can only test from my own network.

Any help at all would be awesome... thanx :)

-Ryan Ritten

In article <f4d27a4f.0309201704.e66fed9@posting.google.com> ,
sparticusREMOVE@thesparticusarena.com says...
> I for some reason cannot receieve email... I maed an account and
> domain/etc.... I forwarded port 25 to my mail server. but I don't get
> mail. I even ran a port sniffer on my mail server... and tried to
> send myself mail (using hotmail) and I never say any packets come
> through. I even turned off my firewall (iptables).
>
> can any of you telnet to 24.71.223.142?

I don't think it's a good idea for anyone to telnet into your box like
that. A quick scan revealed these things:

Open ports: telnet, DNS, HTTP, shell (514), RTSP (multimedia), NFS
(1025), WMS, and HTTP proxy. SMTP is not available at all.

You may want to reconsider the type of firewall you have and which ports
you wish to leave open. As far as qmail is concerned, Google for "Life
With Qmail", an on-line reference. It has some really good
troubleshooting sections.

Cheers!

pr3d4t0r
"Use simple tools and superior grey matter to
figure out what's wrong." -- Matthew Strebe

That's the weird part. I have my router forwarding port 25 to my mail
server. I went on to my mail server and telneted to port 25 and it
let me... I even tried for a different computer on my own network...
it also worked. I have actualyl disabled my firewall on the
computer... which is why so many ports are open.... there's nothing on
the mailserver so I'm not worried about haveing no firewall till I
figure out what's wrong.

SMTP is port 25 (or at least I thought)... any more ideas? this just
makes no sence at all.... maybe my router is screwed... and isn't
forwarding port 25 like it should

sparticusREMOVE@thesparticusarena.com (Ryan Ritten) writes:

> That's the weird part. I have my router forwarding port 25 to my mail
> server. I went on to my mail server and telneted to port 25 and it
> let me... I even tried for a different computer on my own network...
> it also worked. I have actualyl disabled my firewall on the
> computer... which is why so many ports are open.... there's nothing on
> the mailserver so I'm not worried about haveing no firewall till I
> figure out what's wrong.
>
> SMTP is port 25 (or at least I thought)... any more ideas? this just
> makes no sence at all.... maybe my router is screwed... and isn't
> forwarding port 25 like it should

Maybe your ISP is blocking incoming connections to port 25.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

I doubt that's it... I ran my own smtp server a few weeks ago...
somethign just messed up somewhere...



Dave Sill <MaxFreedom@sws5.ornl.gov> wrote in message news:<wx0ptht80hn.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov>...
> sparticusREMOVE@thesparticusarena.com (Ryan Ritten) writes:
>
> > That's the weird part. I have my router forwarding port 25 to my mail
> > server. I went on to my mail server and telneted to port 25 and it
> > let me... I even tried for a different computer on my own network...
> > it also worked. I have actualyl disabled my firewall on the
> > computer... which is why so many ports are open.... there's nothing on
> > the mailserver so I'm not worried about haveing no firewall till I
> > figure out what's wrong.
> >
> > SMTP is port 25 (or at least I thought)... any more ideas? this just
> > makes no sence at all.... maybe my router is screwed... and isn't
> > forwarding port 25 like it should
>
> Maybe your ISP is blocking incoming connections to port 25.

Some ISP's have started doing the blocking thing. Mine blocked
outgoing connections to port 25 other than to their own mail server.

This is a long shot. The other gentleman who ran a portscan has
reported that SMTP (port 25) is not visible from the outside network.
So, 1) packets are not coming in to port 25. Which means either ur ISP
is playing up or your "forwarding" is not working.

Or, your network is not allowing packets to come out (Source port:25
Dest Port:>1024). Check if your router is letting packets out to
higher numbered ports. To check try telneting to yahoo's chat servers
from the mail server machine.

Premnath.

sparticusREMOVE@thesparticusarena.com (Ryan Ritten) wrote in message news:<f4d27a4f.0309220900.2c177696@posting.google. com>...
> I doubt that's it... I ran my own smtp server a few weeks ago...
> somethign just messed up somewhere...