Topic: Outside emails

[derrobe]

Well thank you for helping me make some headway somewhere on this issue of mine.  I will not be able to telnet into my pc remotely till later this evening.  But I checked the log files and it tells me no error messages.  

This is the message I recieved when I sent from an external account to one of my internal accounts as a test.

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    irhineha[at]byte-this[dot]com

Technical details of permanent failure:
TEMP_FAILURE: Could not initiate SMTP conversation with any hosts:
[byte-this[dot]com (0): Connection timed out]

  ----- Original message -----

Received: by 10.38.24.7 with SMTP id 7mr37989rnx;
       Sun, 06 Mar 2005 08:39:45 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.38.149.63 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:39:44 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <e278547405030608391d9598c3@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:39:44 -0500
From: Ian Rhinehart <derrabe[at]gmail[dot]com>
Reply-To: Ian Rhinehart <derrabe[at]gmail[dot]com>
To: irhineha[at]byte-this[dot]com, irhineha[at]comcast[dot]net
Subject: test
Mime-Version: 1.0

I dont recieve any error when I try to send an email out from internal to external but the messages never get delivered.

[egerards]

Assuming that byte-this.com is your SME server, I did some tests to your server.

I noticed that most of all services (FTP/HTTP(S)/SSH/POP3) seem to be available to the outside world, except for SMTP. I simply get no response on port 25. It is as though the SMTP server is not running.

If you have command line access, could you try a '/etc/init.d/smtpfront-qmail status' ? What does it show?

[djhomeless]

Your MX record, mail.byte-this.com, is cnamed to wf.zoneedit.com. Are you aware of this?

I use ZoneEdit myself so I can only assume you are using ZE's email forwarding system.

I would ensure your MX record is resolving to your SME box first, then see if your SMTP issues continue.

Geoffrey

[derrobe]

I am checking the thing egerards asked right now and I have no Idea how to change the MX thingy.  I did just get a failure notice from an internal to external notice so posting it now

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at byte-this.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<freind@yahoo.com>:
Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <irhineha[at]byte-this[dot]com>
Received: (qmail 24084 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2005 15:21:03 -0000
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavis-ng-0.1.6.4-03dc on pumba.byte-this.com
Received: from ianm5uzhirko73 ([169.254.77.65])
  by pumba.byte-this.com ([169.254.77.1])
  with ESMTP via TCP; 03 Mar 2005 15:21:03 -0000
From: "Ian Rhinehart" <irhineha[at]byte-this[dot]com>
To: <freind@yahoo.com>
Subject: Howdy
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:41:41 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
   boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001D_01C51FCC.D2C76700"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
Thread-Index: AcUf9rtwVZxqeX7cQ7SOWQvscKfPjw==

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C51FCC.D2C76700
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
   boundary="----=_NextPart_001_001E_01C51FCC.D2C76700"


------=_NextPart_001_001E_01C51FCC.D2C76700
Content-Type: text/plain;
   charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Second try

[derrobe]

This is for Egerands

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[root@pumba root]# /etc/init.d/smtpfront-qmail status
/service/smtpfront-qmail: up (pid 30988) 71575 seconds, normally down
[root@pumba root]#


I cant make heads or tails of it

[djhomeless]

Your MX 'thingy' should point to where your mail server is, ie your SME box. Right now, it is cnamed to Zone Edit.

What is SMTP set to on your box? Are you pointing it to your ISP, or is your box handling it? If its your box, what is the domain you are using for SMTP.

Not being rude here my friend, but posting email bounces is not going to solve this issue.

Geoffrey

[derrobe]

My box is hosting the smtp server not my isp and my box is hosting 3 domians but the my main domain is byte-this.com.  Zoneedit is my DNS server.  So is that the way it should be or do I need to correct something.  If I do need to correct something can you instruct me on how

[djhomeless]

Go to Zoneedit and check what your MX is set to. I have a feeling you are using the email forward setting which means you don't have a valid MX record. Well you do, but the MX is at Zone's, not your SME box.

Unless you made that selection for a reason, I would point the MX record to your SME box.

Geoffrey

[derrobe]

Is this right?

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Mail Servers: Domain Server    Rank
byte-this.com byte-this.com    0


[CharlieBrady]

<freind@yahoo.com>:
Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

This means (almost certainly) that your ISP is blocking outbound SMTP from your server to the Internet. Only solutions are for you to configure you box to use your ISP's mail server for all outgoing mail (use SmartHost entry in email settings), or change ISPs.

[derrobe]

The only problem with your suggestion is that my email worked fine until I upgradedto 6.5beta2 and installed the few addons (AWStats and Clam)

[derrobe]

Oh yeah and my computer will not connect to the smtp of my isp either when using my outlook I get the same message.  PS I dont get incoming mail either

[djhomeless]

Yes that is right.

It looks like your mail server is still timing out. Are you sure your firewall is not blocking ports on you (DNS, POP, SMTP, etc).

I had this exact same problem on my box, I had all ports open except for DNS which was my problem.

Geoffrey

[derrobe]

I dont have a external firewall I use the SME built in firewall.  The SME box is connected directly to the cable modem

[derrobe]

How do I test if my isp is blocking port 25?  becuase it was not before I upgrade but just so I can rule that out as a possible cuase