On 2010-02-10 Jeff Lacki wrote: > Thanks, thats good advice for sure. Turns out Im not able to get to > port 25 on my postfix box from my current location. > > Whats odd is that I went to 2 other servers on the net and I can > telnet to port 25, but here at home, I cannot. I can telnet to port > 22, 53, but not 25. I checked my iptables on both machines and even > disabled them (flushed all the rules), no luck. > > Anyplace where postfix would deny a specific ip from even connecting? > I cant imagine where that would be, especially because my IP is > dynamic here at home.
The reason most likely isn't your Postfix, but the ISP blocking outbound connections to port 25/tcp. The rationale behind this is to prevent home computer bots from sending spam. Use submission (SMTP with authentication enforced on port 587/tcp) instead. You should use authentication (and encrypted connections) anyway, if you want to relay through your MTA from anywhere in the world. See Postfix' TLS README: http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
