squirrel mail works on local network, but not from web

ckwall · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 163

I have the following ports enabled both udp and tcp:
25
80
143
443
8080
What else could be the issue keeping me from connecting to my squirrelmail from the web?

I can connect just fine within the network, but outside of the firewall, it tells me "The operation timed out when attempting to access....."

Please help
Thank you.

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

what kinda firewall?
if its a router, squirrelmail works for me with just my apache port(i dont use standard 80), (that is of course without SSL, because i cant get ssl working!)

if its something more than a simple cable modem/dsl router, its over my head :-(

ckwall · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 163

it is just an ipchains router.

ckwall · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 163

I have installed fetchmail, and still do not recieve mail. having never used any of this before, I ask, do I need to configure fetchmail?

BackSeat · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 9:56 pm Post subject:

Yes, you need to configure fetchmail (how will it know from whence to fetch the mail if you don't tell it?)

As for squirrelmail: are you running a LAN behind a firewall, and if so is the LAN using private (RFC1918) addresses? And if so, are you port forwarding from your firewall? Need to know the details, but if the above is true you need to ensure you have the following in your /etc/apache/conf/commonapache.conf:

ckwall · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 163

Thanks backseat. I figured that I would have to configure the fetchmail to tell it where the traffic is comming from, just didn't know how. I am away from my home computer now and do not have ssh properly enabled, so I will make the changes to /etc/apache/conf/commonapache.conf when I get home.

I am using a lan at home, and I do have the following ports forwarded for the squirrel mail:

25
80
143
445

The way that I understand those ports,
25 is for smtp
80 for web page
143 for php
445 for ssl

Is this correct?

BackSeat · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 11:26 am Post subject:

To configure fetchmail probably the easiest thing to do is to emerge fetchmailconf and run it.

ckwall · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 163

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I have not been able to get back to this since I posted. I will try all of your suggestions and let you know my results. I will probably get to it tomorrow.

Thanks again.
Chris

ckwall · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 163

Tried this, did not seem to make a difference.

phoenix · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 7

port 143 is normally used for IMAP2. i just recently got my mail server working and one of my problems was that i didn't have that port open on my router.

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