Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails
On Wed January 10 2007 10:19, Duncan McDonald wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Ianson" <alianson@shaw.ca>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails
>
>
> ...
>
> > It was a common practice in my area that ISP's would block ports like 25
> > so
> > you couldn't run servers on a home account, or to prevent spam from
> > originating on their IP block. I don't think that is the case now but
> > that is
> > something you may want to check. Telneting into your mail server on port
> > 25
> > may give you clues as to what is happening when an outside server tries
> > to connect to your host.
>
> I get this when I try to telnet to port 25 remotely:
>
> ~$ telnet encomium.com.au 25
> 220 host.encomium.com.au ESMTP Exim 4.50 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:14:53 +1100
>
> -Duncan
That looks good, exim is waiting to do what it's told. I'd have a good look at
exim's setup and make sure exim knows that mail for that domain should be
accepted.
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