From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 15:24:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1024B1065698 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:24:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cristiano.deana@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970B38FC18 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so3997434fxm.13 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:24:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=GByNYAevjT9uo+lBYhY2WPMJSuyvS7BrmPtd8Rds6q4=; b=M8t+FYF45cvCMZ8GJJEC9z6YI2NrdVYxlT0SyTBPHfOJZ6EPAmMMoVQBH8xfnVWymQ 22KC4Lw/xAmWQPISn8fNELzY22vTBu8MkO5jFKhWo0NZQbI8oJicDP9gXh3FKcE07Pto Lnzz8iR4n2rbM4QmtQ69qhQbJ+cDzjJne2g90= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=Hrg+rWnPpwKXI/WItgkPbEpbfkQNrqrOo2D/2e+t7vZPRCB+qngUlhJdyDbrhQwpG7 ndkGKpD8kTzCAsOeXb9VUEM158sI/RfAZaZ22YUqBSavD6DeM2cgK8ZxSJzwyui3aUFR QHHZTs/dGJqrdZSizCNdKLA72v98/dTEWOSNU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.120.82 with SMTP id c18mr413803far.69.1279725849375; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.114.16 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:24:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> References: <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:24:09 +0200 Message-ID: From: Cristiano Deana To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" , FreeBSD-Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:24:11 -0000 On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or exim > on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up the DNS (A record > and MX record) we have been unable to send or receive mail. steps: a) check if your dns are correct: # dig yourdomain.com mx (eg:) mail.yourdomain.com # telnet mail.yourdomain.com 25 does it reply or not? a) reply check if your mta is cofigured correctly: telnet mail.yourdomain.com 25 # write: ehlo gmail.com mail from: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com rcpt to: example_user@yourdomain.com data Subject: Test . does it reply with a 2XX code? with a 4XX code? 5XX code? b) doesn't reply does mail.yourdomain.com resolve to your mailserver's IP? is your daemon runnig? p.s if you give us more REAL information (domain, ip, etc) we can hel you more. -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/