Topic: Outside emails

[djhomeless]

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

Then you have bigger fish to fry. Either your ISP, or SME firewall/proxy is blocking SMTP.

As a litmus test, try hooking your PC directly to your cable modem and see if you still can't connect to your ISP's SMTP server.

To be honest, I think this is a prime example of when not to upgrade. Unless you have a burning need to run 6.5, it looks like you would be better off downgrading back to 6.0.

Geoffrey

[egerards]

Geoffrey might quite well be right about that downgrading: your smtp server seems to be running, however is not reachable from the outside world and you are unable to reach your isp's smtp server. All this used to work before the upgrade.

Nevertheless a few things:

Does SME 6.5 include the fetchmail contrib (listed as Mails retrieval in your server manager)? There you can enable / disable direct smtp connections.

If you give the following command on the command line, what does it return: 'iptables -L | grep smtp' ?
If the line begins with 'ACCEPT', then the SME firewall is configured to accept smtp connections, however if the line begins with 'denylog', then smtp connections are blocked by the firewall.

And last but not least (as stated before): do make sure that your isp is not blocking smtp access to your server. My previous isp did so from one day to another without any announcement...