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Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails



On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:21:09AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote:
> From: "Andrei Popescu" <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
> >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100
> >"Duncan McDonald" <duncan_mcdonald@ieee.org> wrote:
> >>From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>

> >>> so you can get to the machine, i.e. the port is not blocked. can you
> >>> manually mail user@encomium.com.au from that telnet session? check
> >>>
> >>> http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html for info on this.
> >>
> >>Yes I successfully sent a remote email to the domain via telnet on
> >>port 25. Although when I try connect to the POP port (110), I get a
> >>'connection refused' message.
> >>
> >>Shouldn't I be able to connect to either port via telnet?
> >
> >Why? Do you have a pop server too?
> 
> No I was just asking. I'm just trying to figure out why I can send email 
> from my server and manually to it via telnet, but all other messages from 
> mail clients get rejected...
> 

did you do this telnet from the server? or from a remote machine? if
you did it from the server, it will, of course, connect. again, can
you see the email you manually sent? does it show in the exim logs?
/var/log/exim4/mainlog

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