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.
