Mail Issues

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

Well, as a first shot, is it a filtering issue? You say this box servers as a firewall, so have you allowed the proper holes through?



Michael Malinak extolled:
> I'm having a problem that I thought was related to reverse DNS entries, but
> now I'm not so sure.
> Mail to various hosts (nowhere near all) is bouncing because I timeout when
> trying to send from my SMTP server.
> I use my linux (Mandrake 8) box as a firewall/web/ftp/mail server.
> 
> >From my windows box I can telnet to port 25 of a given host (such as
> mail0.allegro.net)
> My linux box (using procmail or plain telnet to port 25) times out when
> trying to connect to the same machine.
> 
> Anyone have any clues on this one?
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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    Daniel R. Kilbourne
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