Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:10 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails No I was just asking. I'm just trying to figure out why I can send ema

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:21:09AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 > >"Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> so you can get to the machine, i.e. the po

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:00:10AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:16 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 "Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 "Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exi

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 11:00, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails >

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails so you can get to the machine, i.e. the port is not blocked. can you manu

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 10:19, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > >

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:19:46AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:37:55AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming

FW: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Belt
Your problem really seems to be DNS related. I would use the tools at www.dnsstuff.com. Just running the regualr DNS Report it will check a number of areas that your DNS settings could be wrong. Pay close attention to the MX portion or the report, to see if anything doesn't pass. Steve Belt

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... It was a common practice in my area that ISP's would block ports like 25

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 09:37, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails >

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails okay, so I had to try this to learn and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +short b

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:33:04 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [ snip: Jon Dowland's nice mini-tutorial about dig and MX records ] > okay, so I had to try this to learn and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +short bigpond.com mx > 10 extmail.bigpond.com. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.big

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:06:20PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:52:01AM +1100, Duncan McDonald > wrote: > > As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm > > not sure what an MX record is. > > Domains are mapped to IP addresses via DNS records. DNS > records co

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 05:54, Duncan McDonald wrote: > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > ... > > > Just a shot in th

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
A useful function is # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:52:01AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm > not sure what an MX record is. Domains are mapped to IP addresses via DNS records. DNS records come in a variety of types: the most common being the 'A' record, which speci

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:47:15PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > "no server error", and the fact that you later say you > see nothing in your exim4 logs make me wonder if you've > setup MX records for your domain to point to the IP > address of your server? In the absence of MX records, maile

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:54:44AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > I actually set the 'listening' addresses option to blank. > I believe this means that my server should be listening on > all available network addresses shouldn't it? Yes, and you can verify this using "lsof -ni:25 | grep LISTEN",

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set to listen to 127.0.0.1 it will only accept connections from localhost, n

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Steve Kemp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian list" Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:47 PM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... "no server error", and the fact that you later sa

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 04:41, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a > problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly > from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within > th

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:41:29PM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > "The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected > by the server. The rejected email-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > Subject 'test', Account: 'blah', Server: 'mail.bigpond.com', Protocol: > SMTP,

Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
Hi all, I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within the network, I don't seem to be able to receive any email sent