On Tue, 21 Oct 2003
Dvmcaferty@aol.com wrote:
> But I cannot receive e-mail. (using sendmail)
>
> The error messages from the bounced e-mails looks
> like this:
Bounce messages are usually not good for troubleshooting.
Some troubleshooting ideas/steps:
1) on the mail server, run:
netstat -an # and make sure that port 25 is listening
telnet localhost 25 # to make sure sendmail is listening at least locally
(And type "quit" to exit the SMTP session.)
telnet your.public.ip.address 25
2) from a remote computer:
dig seeop.net MX # and make sure it has an MX record
telnet mail.seeop.net. 25 # connect to that MX as shown above
Then try some SMTP commands:
HELO your.local.host.name
MAIL FROM: <
your@email.address>
RCPT TO: <
your@seeop.net.address>
DATA
Hello
. <- period here
QUIT
By the way, mail.seeop.net (207.108.140.106) doesn't appear to have a SMTP
listening to port 25.
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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