Brian Auty wrote:
> The documentation left me wondering a little more than it should have.
> Maybe I read the wrong parts.
>
> As for host accept relay, I understand that this is for relaying users
> mail from in our office and for those on the road. I just thought it
> might have something to do with my problem. However, the main issue is
> routing to the machine and I'm wondering if I have to do something with
> my DNS server.
>
> I've contacted our ISP and they say that port 25 is not blocked. I have
> tested this and that is correct.
>
> My public IP begins with 209.115.., but internally the machine IP is
> 192.168... - I'm assuming that our public IP's do not go through our
> firewall and the the IP translation is done entirely by the switch.
> This means that the only DNS I need to worry about is the one at the ISP.
>
> I've checked the error logs and they don't say much. I have 6 frozen
> messages, presumably they are in the queue so they outgoing problems. I
> can send mail directly from the machine out, using Squirrelmail. I can
> telnet to port 25 and run through the commands manually and the mail is
> delivered.
Brian:
you'll need either an external IP address or a solution by which you get
your mail onto your internal server with fetchmail or something similar.
You could also port-forward port 25 to your internal server. You'll also
need an A record, and an MX record in order to route mail to your system.
I *highly* suggest that you pick up the exim book, or a book on internet
email. (Philip has got an excellent introduction to internet email in
the book. I'm kind of guessing from your posts that there may be some
groundwork for you to explain your problem-- or to see the problem with
your architecture.
Regards,
Glen Mehn
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Brian
>
> Glen Mehn wrote:
>
>> Brian Auty wrote:
>>
>>> I've been trying to send mail to my new mail server and I can't seem to
>>> make it work.
>>>
>>> There could be any number of problems, since I'm new at this, but so
>>> far
>>> I've set up Exim and Courier IMAP and when I test locally everything
>>> works. I've installed Squirrelmail and that works, at least for
>>> sending.
>>>
>>> But no matter what I try, I cannot send mail to this server.
>>>
>>> I have to assume that our ISP has blocked mail or I've set up the
>>> host_accept_relay incorrectly.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> read the manual?
>>
>> host_accept_relay is for hosts/networks for whom you want to always
>> relay mail (i.e., use the exim server as their smtp server). Check the
>> names and values of local_domains and relay_domains, as well as the
>> information in the logs (typically either in /var/log/exim or in
>> /var/log)
>>
>> And you'll need to setup DNS to route mail for your machine.
>>
>> glen
>>
>>
>>
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