RE: Postfix

did you restart iptables after making the change?
service iptables restart
is ther a file /etc/hosts.deny? (tcpwrappers)

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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Brian ThunderEagle
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 5:20 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Postfix

I set up postfix, got it all installed and followed the instructions
here:

http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/40/2/Site_News

to set it all up. Everything seems to be working just fine on the server

however I cannot seem to send mail to my server and can't send mail out
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my server. I tried messing with a few settings in postfix but couldn't
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it to work. At one point when I was using "mail" from my other linux
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it was logging this in "/var/log/mail":

connect to mail.bcthund.net[24.176.56.245]: Connection refused (port 25)

but recently it stopped logging even the attempts to mail anything. So
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didn't even have any clues to whats wrong. I looked at my server logs
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doesn't seem to say anything about any attempts to even contact it for
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delivery. I found the "mailq" command and all my messages that actually
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up on the list say this on my desktop computer:

server dropped connection without sending the initial SMTP greeting

When I looked at the "mailq" on my server for a message I tried to send
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hotmail I got:

connect to mx2.hotmail.com[65.54.190.50]: Connection timed out

I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now but I'm pretty
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and don't know what else to try at this point. I can send mail to myself
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the server but nothing can go out or in. And my logs don't say anything.

Even the "mailq" on my desktop stopped logging information.

     Brian ThunderEagle
     thundereagle@hotmail.com

I set up iptables on the server to allow traffic on ports 25, 110, and
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I enabled TCP and UDP just in case and did the same thing on my linksys=20
router.

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Received on Sun Jun 4 17:42:09 2006