Topic: Mail & Demon Internet

[Dave]

I've searched for and read loads of stuff here about getting mail from Demon Internet to work but I don't seem able to get it working here.

I can send fine, it's just the receiving that's not working.  Background; Demon will attempt to send mail via SMTP each time I connect, you can collect by POP3 but looking at the snags involved with that I'd much rather get "proper" mail delivery via SMTP working.  B-)

When I dialup nothing comes in and nothing is rejected but as grc.com says port 25 isn't open that is not a great surprise.  I have left the mail retreival option at "Standard" which, presumably, is SMTP (if so, why not call it that?). So shouldn't port 25 be open on the external interface?

Getting to the stage where stuff is rejected would be further forward than I am at the moment!

Cheers
Dave.

[Nathan Fowler]

To receive mail SMTP 25 must be open on the external interface.  Perhaps your ISP is blocking 25 incoming?

Hope this helps,
Nathan

[Dave]

> To receive mail SMTP 25 must be open on the external interface.

Obviously.  B-)

> Perhaps your ISP is blocking 25 incoming?

Nope, grc.com can now see it as open.  B-)

Bit more digging about looking at the scripts for fetch/startmail and their templates, finding useful commands like "db configuration show" and examining the output showed that SMTPFront-Qmail access was set to private. Bit more reading of the docs and it's down to the mode I have SME set to, namely private server & gateway. That mode disables *all* outside servers, server & gateway mode enables both a webserver and mailserver. I don't want to run a publicly accessable webserver...

Anyway by setting SMTPFront-Qmail access to public and a virtual domain to my full ISP host/domain name (to avoid qmail complianing about that name not being in its rcpthosts file) it all appears to work. More testing required to confirm that mail ends up in the right places etc  but I don't think that will be a problem as it works locally.

Seems a bit daft to me to have a mail retreival set to "standard" and one of the gateway options to not enable the "standard" mail port...

Cheers
Dave.