Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:28:46 +0930 From: Andrew D <andrewd@webzone.net.au> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Having some problems with a FreeBSD mail server (SMTP) Message-ID: <48917EC6.1080400@webzone.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200807301835.17740.af300wsm@gmail.com> References: <200807301835.17740.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > I run a mail server for my church. Today I was called that folks are able to > receive, but not send their mail. They are all currently configured for POP3 > (I use dovecot). > > At home I tried to send mail to two different e-mail accounts of mine using > the church e-mail server and was successful. I used KMail for this. > > As I look through /var/log/maillog I do not even see authid=<their_user_ids> > in the mail log (I'm using TLS with sendmail). One of the pastor's told me > the error he's seeing is "timeout." They are using Outlook, I'm not sure of > the version. What problems do people here usually encounter with Outlook > mail clients and their SMTP servers? > Have you even tried to get them to telnet to port 25, 465(for tls/ssl) to see what happens? If their ISP is blocking port 25 then you can get them to send their mail using port 465 (with TLS/SSL) or using the SMTP submission port which is on port 587. HTH cya Andrew > At this point, I'd just like to have some leads. Any ideas what might be > keeping them from sending? They can all log in and receive e-mail POP3. > > Thanks, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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