problem sending mail through Eudora

I'm having some difficulties getting qmail to work. I can, with Eudora (or
Outlook), read mail, but not send. Eudora tells me this error: Network
Unreachable.

And, checking from the command line, I discovered this:

# telnet 64.91.109.167 25
Trying 64.91.109.167...
Connected to 64.91.109.167.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I checked some logs, in particular /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd, there is this
(lots of them, this one is typical):

/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb: file does not exist
@400000003f78dd911e590cf4 tcpserver: end 4031 status 28416
@400000003f78dd911e591c94 tcpserver: status: 0/20
@400000003f7999142e4413fc tcpserver: status: 1/20
@400000003f7999142e45e0ec tcpserver: pid 4568 from 67.40.32.57
@400000003f799914313c2234 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to
read

So, upon doing some checking, I rebuilt the tcpserver cdb file with

# qmailctl cdb

And now.

# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 botteronet.net ESMTP
quit
221 botteronet.net
Connection closed by foreign host.

So that seems to be taken care of, but still Eudora (and other clients as
well) can not send.

Where should I look? What does any of this tell you?

I'm sorry. I'm running this on RH8. I also have vpopmail installed. What
other details would help trouble shoot this?

"jbottero" <jbottero@botteronet.com> wrote in message
> I'm having some difficulties getting qmail to work. I can, with Eudora (or
> Outlook), read mail, but not send. Eudora tells me this error: Network
> Unreachable.
>


Well , if none of the clients are working and if all of them are
giving the same "Network Unreachable" error; you might want to check
the outgoing SMTP server setting in the clients. In Outlook Express
you can find it here Tools->Accounts->Mail "TAB"->"your account
name"->Properties. Please check if you have given the correct deatils
there. It can either be an IP address or fully qualified host name"
like "mail.server.com".

Assuming that you are able to telnet to the mail server from the
client machine using the IP address, try specifying the IP adress. If
this solves your problem, try to check the DNS server settings in the
local machine. You might also want to check the relay settings if you
want to relay mails to the outside world using the mail server.

regards,

Premnath.

"Nothing is as simple as I say it is"