On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:31:20 -0500, you wrote: >can you: > >$ telnet yourhost.com 25 >(obviously replacing yourhost.com with whatever your domain/ip actually is) >from the machine you are sending the mail from? If not make sure the >service is running and make sure there isn't a firewall rule preventing >this.
Connect failed. >On 06/16/15 10:44, Steve Matzura wrote: >> The next phase of my testing procedure involves the simple act of >> delivering mail to my test box. When I send a message to either a >> valid or relayed user at my remote machine's address, it never gets >> there. I know this virtually for sure because I'm tailing >> /var/log/maillog and nothing new has been added for the past hour. I'm >> thinking eventually my ISP will send the message back to me as >> undeliverable, and in that bounced message there may be some >> information about why it was undeliverable, but maybe someone has a >> thought as to why I'm not even seeing anything attempt to connect?