[TriLUG] e-mail configuration question

Mark mark at thefowles.com
Thu Feb 7 13:30:50 EST 2002


Greg,

as a test --  try sending from the command line to see if it goes...

/usr/lib/sendmail -v  whatever at address.com
blah blah blah

.

Then see what happens....

Mark


gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:

>All:
>
>I am attempting to use my Linux lab machine as my primary source for e-mail while at work.  E-mail works great as long as it is sent between users on the same machine (i.e. mail -s "test" username) but when I attempt to e-mail my account from outside of my machine (i.e. sent to username at vtcdev.gc.lucent.com) the mail never arrives.  This happens when I send e-mail from outside of Lucent or from the Lucent network (just from a different machine on the network).
>
>I am using Kmail as my client (along with xbiff).  I have Kmail configured to look for e-mail in /var/spool/mail/user and it sees e-mail here as long as it was generated from the same machine.
>
>So now I'm left with two possibilities in this scenario:
>
>1. there is a firewall somewhere on the LAN which is intercepting my e-mails destined for vtcdev and is dropping them
>
>2. something isn't configured correctly on vtcdev to allow for e-mail to be recieved from machines other than itself
>
>Any suggestions?  I see port 25 defined in /etc/services and it appear my IP Chains should be allowing incoming mail (ipchains file at the end of this e-mail).
>
>Greg
>
>
> Firewall configuration written by lokkit
># Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
># Note: ifup-post will punch the current nameservers through the
>#       firewall; such entries will *not* be listed here.
>:input ACCEPT
>:forward ACCEPT
>:output ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 25 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 80 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 21 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 22 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 23 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 67:68 -d 0/0 67:68 -p udp -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 67:68 -d 0/0 67:68 -p udp -i eth1 -j ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -i lo -j ACCEPT
>-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
>-A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 0:1023 -y -j REJECT
>-A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 2049 -y -j REJECT
>-A input -p udp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 0:1023 -j REJECT
>-A input -p udp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 2049 -j REJECT
>-A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 6000:6009 -y -j REJECT
>-A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 7100 -y -j REJECT
>
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