Re: mail not getting through

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Rainville"

> If I do: telnet tommyreilly.com 25 - I get a "connection refused" error.

what this means is that there is something between the outside world
and your server which is blocking port 25 traffic.
Until that is resolved you can't receive external email.
This could be a firewall setting (yours or your provider's)

> I believe that's normal - but if I just do a telnet I can connect.

telnet without a port defaults to the telnet port 23. Being able to
connect there has nothing to do with email delivery.
(Although nothing to do with your problem, personally I would
block connections on port 23. If you need to access a login shell
from outside, try looking at ssh instead.)

> Yes - 64.42.0.26 is the address of the postfix box.

> One other piece of information - I have another domain (Rainville.net)
> that is hosted by a different machine, different address and everything.
> As far as I can tell both domains are configured the same. I just ran
> the command "dig +short mx rainville.net" and it didn't return anything.
> However, on that machine the mail is working just fine.

If an MX record is not defined, mail is sent to the address defined in the
A record.

John

> Thanks for you help.
> Jim