The firewall appears to block the mail system. Anyone any clues on ip settings or such to overcome this?
Which firewall are you taliking about, the ISPConfig firewall or the firewall from your linux distribution? Which linux distribution do you use? Please post the output of: iptables -L
Thanks Till, Running fedora 6 and talking about the ISPConfig wall. Here 'tis Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination DROP tcp -- anywhere 127.0.0.0/8 ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere DROP all -- BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET/4 anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_IN all -- anywhere anywhere DROP all -- anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED DROP all -- anywhere anywhere Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination PUB_OUT all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_OUT all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_OUT all -- anywhere anywhere PUB_OUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain INT_IN (0 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere DROP all -- anywhere anywhere Chain INT_OUT (0 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain PAROLE (10 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain PUB_IN (4 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp destination-unreachable ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp echo-reply ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp time-exceeded ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp echo-request PAROLE tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp PAROLE tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh PAROLE tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:smtp PAROLE tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:domain PAROLE tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http PAROLE tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:hosts2-ns I haven't changed any settings except to add two ports for the named update. But the problem actually predates that. Regards
SMTP is not blocked, but it looks like pop3 is not enabled. Please open the port for pop3 in the firewall.