I've followed the tutorial and everything works great. I've got my mail up and running (installed squirrelmail). I've setup thunderbird to recive the mails too, the problem is sending mail from thunderbird. In the maillog I can see that thunderbird connects, then it just hangs until it timesout. I can telnet to the server from the same computer thunderbird is installed on. The server is a VPS with an older kernel... 2.6.18-028stab068.9 #1 SMP Tue Mar 30 17:22:31 MSD 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I got errors when I tried to install the "base" package. Everything else seems to work ok though.. Any ideas? My guess is that my postfix configuration is off. But I've followed the guide all the way.
Thanks for a quick reply falko! And thank you so much for your effort in making these howtos! The output is: Disabled
That's ok. Are there any errors in your mail log? What are the outputs of Code: netstat -tap and Code: iptables -L ?
Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 16038/mysqld tcp 0 0 *:hosts2-ns *:* LISTEN 24342/ispconfig_htt tcp 0 0 px08.net:domain *:* LISTEN 25640/named tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomai:domain *:* LISTEN 25640/named tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 3511/master tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:rndc *:* LISTEN 25640/named tcp 0 0 *:dnp *:* LISTEN 17908/perl tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 14036/imap-login tcp 0 0 *op3s *:* LISTEN 3642/pop3-login tcp 0 0 *op3 *:* LISTEN 3642/pop3-login tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 14036/imap-login tcp 0 0 *:http *:* LISTEN 7817/httpd tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 25705/proftpd: (acc tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 15917/sshd tcp 0 0 localhost6.localdomain:rndc *:* LISTEN 25640/named tcp 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN 7817/httpd tcp 0 976 px08.net:ssh gatekeeper.alesund.ko:30061 ESTABLISHED 17995/0 tcp 0 0 px08.net:imaps static140-139.mimer.n:49361 ESTABLISHED 9654/imap-login Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ftp-data ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ftp ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:domain ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:dnp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ndmp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:https ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:imaps ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:imap ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dptop3s ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dptop3 ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp-data ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:domain ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:smtp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination
I've stopped IPtables. The maillog says that my IP (home computer) connected, then it just times out. It's like thunderbird connects to the server, and then the server dosen't know what to do.
As I typed above, thunderbirds connects then disconnects. No erros. Unless you mean another log then the maillog.log in /var/log/
That's the correct log. Is there some kind of router between your client PC and the server that might block your requests? Is the server located in a data center, or do you host it at home/in your office?
Yes, there's a router. The server is in a datacenter. The VPS runs on a virutozzo system. So the kernel is old. I could not install the "BASE package". I can connect via telnet to the box, and according to the maillog.log, the thunderbird client connects just fine. I'm thinking of just moving to another host that dosen't run viurtozzo, so that I can have my own "container" and run the newest kernel.
