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 Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 1:54 pm Post subject: email problem |
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Hi, for a 5 days i can't send e-mail anymore !!!
Any idea why I can send only?
Here is an example:
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liviu@JavaStorm liviu $ mail ciufulitu@yahoo.com
Body text here...
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mail: can't open the smtp port (25) on mail.
liviu@JavaStorm liviu $
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When i use KMail to send emails it crashes...
thanks
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lx
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is your mailserver (sendmail / postfix / exim) up and running. or did you / or something block access to port 25 on the server running it. You shouldn't use the port if you're posting locally but instead send files by using a script from postfix called sendmail (or sendmail itself), works fine. Try | Code: | | telnet <servername> 25 |
you then should see a welcome.
Need more info, lX
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alec
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Do a 'nmap localhost' (you might need to emerge nmap - it's a nice little portscanning utility). If nothing shows up on port 25, you need to start your MTA. You might also have a configuration problem - most MTAs have configuration checking scripts - check in the config file, it probably says. For example, in exim, you would run:
| Code: | lorax root # exim -C /etc/exim/configure -bV
Exim version 4.04 #1 built 29-May-2002 09:52:20
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002
2002-05-29 16:51:27 Exim configuration error in line 71:
main option "local_domains" unknown |
Good thing I ran this - I almost just restarted my freshly-updated exim! |
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DArtagnan
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | is your mailserver (sendmail / postfix / exim) up and running. or did you / or something block access to port 25 on the server running it. You shouldn't use the port if you're posting locally but instead send files by using a script from postfix called sendmail (or sendmail itself), works fine. Try |
But i don't need an e-mail server to send emails especialy using Kmail that has smtp support built in.
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Oops didn't know, stupid me (gnome user), cannot find anything in the feature list of a build in smtp server, but well if you say so. Is a firewall blocking the port (maybe some new restrictions of your ISP).
Try to reach yahoo manually
| Code: | | telnet mx1.mail.yahoo.com 25 |
or mx2.mail.yahoo.com
mine gives:
| Quote: | Trying 64.157.4.89...
Connected to mx1.mail.yahoo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 YSmtp mta590.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP service ready |
From this we can deducted that my computor (and kmail / postfix) can reach the other smtp server to drop the message.
We need to pinpoint the problem, lX.
Think it hasn't got a buildin smtp-server, it can only relay a message to an smtp-server, which inturn will send your message, in this case you have to install a smtp server or connect to your ISPs server. btw. What changed 5 days ago??? update / deleted packages????
Ps. can also try netstat if you don't have nmap installed:
| Code: | | netstat --numeric-ports -l |
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DArtagnan
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This is not a ISP problem ( firewall ) because with the same user can send email from windows.
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In windows you don't use a smtp SERVER. So you probably need to reconfigure kmail to use your ISPs smtp (smtp.<isp>.com) server to send mail, instead of a local server. Don't have the program so I can't help you with that.
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