Topic: arrrgh matey, no incoming e-mail

[mike]

I have not been able to receive e-mail yet on the e-smith server I set up (5.1.2). The server is running in Standalone mode behind a firewall. I have forwarded port 143 and 110 to the e-smith machine behind the firewall running the e-mail application and am able to telent to it successfully (i.e. the port is forwarded and I get: * OK mydomain.com IMAP4rev1 v12.264 server ready and something similar on port 110). I have entered the following DNS records with my DNS host:

mydomain.com  MX  mail.mydomain.com  1
mail.mydomain.com  A  x.x.x.x(my IP address)

I can send mail out from the machine, though I guess that's a different animal all together. So, where might I be going wrong? Thanks for any help...

Mike

[mike]

Opened smtp port 25...works.

[ed bongaerts]

yes, that's what I need to do .. how do you open port 25 ? I would have thought it is open as standard .. I am connected directly to the internet via my ISP, whose server would kick any [of my doemain] mail to my server if it detected open port 25 in the connection, but that does not happen .. [postfix will do it nicely, qmail is set different] ?

Any help appreciated

mike wrote:
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> Opened smtp port 25...works.