From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 1:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C075E37B409 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 01:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9587 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jun 2002 08:13:11 -0000 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:13:11 +0200 (MEST) From: Sanjay Bhattacharya To: David Banning Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20020621022729.A6248@skytrackercanada.com> Subject: Re: using the smtp server remotely - how? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated-Sender: #0014812425@gmx.net X-Authenticated-IP: [203.197.117.162] Message-ID: <8321.1024647191@www48.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.5 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The problem might be firewall related. Make sure external connections to your smtp server is allowed by your firewall. Check the firewall logs. Maybe that can help. rgds, Sanjay > My smtp server works fine internally, but this is what I get > externally; > > david>$ telnet skytrackercanada.com 25 > Trying 209.188.66.29... > telnet: connect to address 209.188.66.29: Operation timed out > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host > david>$ > > I even set the FEATURE(promiscuous_relay) (just for testing) > and HUP'ed sendmail and it still does not work. > > Can some one give me direction? I want to simply use my machine > for smtp relaying. -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message