Re: email server question

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Good Morning all,

Wwll, I have now gotten to my email server from the outsite but am still getting:

MailEnable: Message Delivery Failure.

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

[SMTP:lonnie@xxxxxxxxxxx]: Remote SMTP Server Returned: 550 5.7.1 <lonnie@xxxxxxxxxxx>... Relaying denied

What do I need to do to fixt this?

I am using dovecot and sendmail. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Thanks and have a great day,
Lonnie

Scot L. Harris wrote:

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 23:23, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:



I have a dynamic IP on my cable modem being serviced by DNSpark which allow me to keep my domain name in sync with my current IP.

The problem is now that I can send email from my host at home to a web email account that I have on a hosting service but cannot seem to receive an emails onto my local host.

MailEnable: Message Delivery Failure.

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

	[SMTP:lonnie@xxxxxxxxxxx]: General Failure

Any ideas on a possible fix would be greatly appreciated.



Assuming you have MX records configured correctly in DNS for the moment the following items might cause such a problem:

1. ISP may be blocking inbound port 25.  Try using telnet outstep.com
25.  If you get a connection you should be able to type HELO domain.name
and get a response.  If you can not get a connection port 25 may be
blocked.

2. You have a firewall on your machine blocking port 25.  Same test as
in 1.  But this one you can fix by opening port 25.  Quick test would be
to issue the command:  service iptables stop.  Then run a test email to
the system or the telnet test in 1.

3. You don't have your MTA enabled on the server.  You need to have a
process listening on port 25 to receive the message.  Try the command:
netstat -an | grep :25

This should list a process listening on port 25.  If you don't have one
then you need to enable your MTA.

You can also use dig or nslookup to check your mx records.







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