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Re: Mail server and iptables/exim



On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:48:41PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, David P James said:
> > >As you have noted, there are quite a few variables.  Rule out iptables
> > >and tcpwrappers first - from an address outside the LAN, telnet
> > >your.host.ip 25 - if the connection times out, it's probably iptables,
> > >if it's refused, it's either iptables or tcpwrappers.  If you connect
> > >and get the exim greeting banner, then you know that the problem is your
> > >exim.conf.
> > 
> > I sshed to my brother's Redhat server and did the telnet my.host.ip 25 
> > thing back to my server; the connection timed out. I tried a few other 
> > ports (21, 80, 22, 110) and got a connection quite quickly.
> 
> Then apparently iptables is DROPping connections to that port - fix that
> and we'll move from there.

Jumping in late, but isn't it also possible that the OP's ISP is
blocking port 25 (a common spam-fighting technique) ?

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