Topic: sendmail

[Kip]

I have a dsl router on my server. I need to know what ports to forward to allow pop, smtp, and IMAP

Thanks,

Kip

[Kip]

I have port 25 and 110 forwarded. but If you try to send mail to a user, it comes back as host unknown.
there must be another port Im missing

[Kip]

I thought that this would be a simple question that some one could answer

[Dan Brown]

...and what makes you think your problem is port forwarding?  25 is SMTP, 110 is POP, and IMAP is 143.  Are you using a real hostname?  Can you maybe be a bit less impatient?

[kip]

oh, sorry.  yes, I am using securechoice.net wich is registered to me and I am using zoneedit nameservers.  when I ping mail.securechoice.net I get no response.
I have tried to use www.securechoice.net instead of mail.securechoice.net and I get a error saying that I cannot relay. I have tried to ping mail.securechoice.net and I get no answer.

[Dan Brown]

Well, mail.securechoice.net doesn't exist, which would explain your getting no response.

[kip]

do I have to register that url? I thought that would be a subdomain of www.securechoice.net.  when I check the server configuration, it says the mail server is mail.securechoice.net  Also, at zoneedit, I have these names pointing to my ip   www.securechoicenet.  securechoice.net and  mail.securechoice.net

[Dan Brown]

Well, it's a hostname, not a URL.  Yes, you'd need to register each hostname you want to use (mail., www., ftp., etc.), and zoneedit is where you'd do that.  As of a few minutes ago, zoneedit's nameservers didn't recognize mail.securechoice.net:

[dan@e-smith dan]$ nslookup mail.securechoice.net 207.228.252.101
Server:  ns1.zoneedit.com
Address:  207.228.252.101

*** ns1.zoneedit.com can't find mail.securechoice.net: Non-existent host/domain