[exim] Exim Can Send But Can't Receive

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Author: Jason Karuza
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To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Exim Can Send But Can't Receive
Thanks, Steve, for your help. Your first idea was correct. Windows
update enabled the firewall. Thanks for your help.

Jason

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:18:29PM -0700, Jason Karuza wrote:
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:18:29 -0700
> From: Jason Karuza <jasonkaruza@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [exim] Exim Can Send But Can't Receive
> To: exim-users@xxxxxxxx
>
> This is my first time emailing to the list. I have searched around for
> solutions. I apologize if this does not follow any standard procedures.
>
> Here is my configuration:
> Exim4
> Cygwin
> Windows XP
> AT&T DSL (SBC)
>
> For several months I had my mail server working fine. Near the end of last
> week I discovered that Exim was no longer receiving email but could still
> send mail out. I don't recall changing any configuration settings which
> would leads me to believe it is something out of my hands, but I want to try
> to narrow down where the connection is broken and go from there.


Have those nice Windows people turned on a firewall in one of their
updates.

Has your ISP stopped inbound port 25 connections?

Trying to telnet to the MX holder of karuza.com gives nothing.

$ telnet jasonk.hopto.org 25
Trying 69.237.44.33...


> My exim_main.log traditionally would update any time an email received.
> Currently, nothing is being appended to that or any other log when I try to
> send an email to the server. I am hosting a few domains: karuza.com,
> list2text.com, and bhhsdrumline.com which can all still be viewed with
> regards to Apache and HTTP so I don't think it is a domain direction
> problem.


Just port 25 then.

> I spoke with AT&T support chat three times yesterday. They have no
> understanding of mail servers and Exim. They are used to problems with
> Outlook and webmail, so getting them to help is an issue but I am thinking
> it's either something they did without notifying me or somehow services are
> not set up right on my server now.


An ISP that doesn't understand mail servers. Wow.

> I have exim using SMTP on port 25 to send mail. I have inetd set up to
> listen on pop and imap ports as per the tutorial here:
> http://pigtail.net/LRP/exim/exim-cygwin.html


You have Exim listening on port 25 to receive mail. IMAP and POP3 are
irrelevant here.

> echo -e 'Subject: Testr\nOi' | exim Karuza@xxxxxxxxx,Karuza@localhost


That's a new one for me.


Try:

telnet localhost 25

You should get a line that starts:

220

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