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PostPosted: Wed May 29, 2002 1:54 pm    Post subject: email problem Reply with quote

Hi, for a 5 days i can't send e-mail anymore !!!
Any idea why I can send only?
Here is an example:
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liviu@JavaStorm liviu $ mail ciufulitu@yahoo.com
Body text here...
.

mail: can't open the smtp port (25) on mail.
liviu@JavaStorm liviu $
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When i use KMail to send emails it crashes...
thanks
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PostPosted: Wed May 29, 2002 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

is your mailserver (sendmail / postfix / exim) up and running. or did you / or something block access to port 25 on the server running it. You shouldn't use the port if you're posting locally but instead send files by using a script from postfix called sendmail (or sendmail itself), works fine. Try
Code:
 telnet <servername> 25
you then should see a welcome.

Need more info, lX
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PostPosted: Wed May 29, 2002 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do a 'nmap localhost' (you might need to emerge nmap - it's a nice little portscanning utility). If nothing shows up on port 25, you need to start your MTA. You might also have a configuration problem - most MTAs have configuration checking scripts - check in the config file, it probably says. For example, in exim, you would run:

Code:
lorax root # exim -C /etc/exim/configure -bV
Exim version 4.04 #1 built 29-May-2002 09:52:20
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002
2002-05-29 16:51:27 Exim configuration error in line 71:
  main option "local_domains" unknown


Good thing I ran this - I almost just restarted my freshly-updated exim!
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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2002 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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is your mailserver (sendmail / postfix / exim) up and running. or did you / or something block access to port 25 on the server running it. You shouldn't use the port if you're posting locally but instead send files by using a script from postfix called sendmail (or sendmail itself), works fine. Try


But i don't need an e-mail server to send emails especialy using Kmail that has smtp support built in.
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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2002 7:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oops didn't know, stupid me (gnome user), cannot find anything in the feature list of a build in smtp server, but well if you say so. Is a firewall blocking the port (maybe some new restrictions of your ISP).

Try to reach yahoo manually
Code:
telnet mx1.mail.yahoo.com 25

or mx2.mail.yahoo.com
mine gives:
Quote:
Trying 64.157.4.89...
Connected to mx1.mail.yahoo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 YSmtp mta590.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP service ready

From this we can deducted that my computor (and kmail / postfix) can reach the other smtp server to drop the message.

We need to pinpoint the problem, lX.

Think it hasn't got a buildin smtp-server, it can only relay a message to an smtp-server, which inturn will send your message, in this case you have to install a smtp server or connect to your ISPs server. btw. What changed 5 days ago??? update / deleted packages????

Ps. can also try netstat if you don't have nmap installed:
Code:
netstat --numeric-ports -l

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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2002 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is not a ISP problem ( firewall ) because with the same user can send email from windows.
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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2002 8:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In windows you don't use a smtp SERVER. So you probably need to reconfigure kmail to use your ISPs smtp (smtp.<isp>.com) server to send mail, instead of a local server. Don't have the program so I can't help you with that.
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