Cant recieve mails

[JoeJoe]

:confused:

I can send emails from a newly aquired server,.. am running on mandriva, used the perfectsetup with ISPconfig. But i cant recieve any.. and i dont get any errors??
Does anyone have a clue on what i should look for?

[edge]

Is your MX record in the DNS set correct for that domain?

[JoeJoe]

i believe so,.. i had ispconfig do it.

Winged off- create DNS & Create DNS-MX
Am not sure.. what else to do!

I checked With DNS report and everything checked out,.. except mail--

ERROR: I could not complete a connection to any of your mailservers!

mail.domain.com: Timed out [Last data sent: [Did not connect]]

If this is a timeout problem, note that the DNS report only waits about 40 seconds for responses, so your mail *may* work fine in this case but you will need to use testing tools specifically designed for such situations to be certain.

any ideas?

[edge]

Okay. The best thing to do is post your domainname, so that some of us can have a look at the DNS records.

If you do not want to do this (understandable), than did you set the namservers at the place where you registered the domainname to the correct IP(s)?..

An other way of seeing a lot of usable info for you is by using www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=your-domain.com (make sure that you replace the your-domain.com)

[JoeJoe]

http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=*******.'**

any idea why i cant connect to the mailserver?

[JoeJoe]

I also got emails back that saying,.. emails sent were delayed,.. and no specific error ???


also heres part of the mail log

Oct 3 18:18:07 server1 ipop3d[16810]: pop3 service init from 127.0.0.1
Oct 3 18:18:07 server1 ipop3d[16810]: Command stream end of file while reading
line user=??? host=UNKNOWN
Oct 3 18:18:21 server1 ipop3d[16820]: pop3 service init from 127.0.0.1
Oct 3 18:18:21 server1 ipop3d[16820]: Connection reset by peer while reading li
ne user=??? host=UNKNOWN


Anyone know what this means?

[till]

Did you follow one of the perfect setup guides? Make sure that the Maildir checkbox in the ISPConfig server settings is disabled.

[JoeJoe]

Yes i followed the Mandriva 2006 10.1.
I have just unchecked the maildir in ispconfig.

Still no incoming mails ?

[edge]

I can see that your port 25 is open, but when I telnet to your system on that port, I do not get any responce back!

Is postfix runing?

[JoeJoe]

[root@server1 ~]# /etc/init.d/postfix restart
Shutting down postfix: [ OK ]
Starting postfix: [ OK ]

pretty sure it was,.. anyway i just restarted it to be sure.

As far as i know,.. everything should be ok. Since only errors i get back say that the mails have been delayed. I have disabled anti virus & spam filters!!
Whats missing ?:(

[JoeJoe]

Alright so i went back to the howto.. and ran through the setup one more time.
Now i am back to where i started... i am getting errors from dnsreports


Warning

mail.********.*** postmaster response: >>> RCPT TO:<postmaster@*******.***> <<< 554 <postmaster@*******.***>: Relay access denied

i am hoping someone has seen thise error before ?

[JoeJoe]

Fixed it...

went through the howto a couple of times again and again... am not sure how.. but it works now!!

[edge]

You can copy & paste from the howto's into putty.

Problem with this is that sometimes you copy an extra "space" after the needed command, causing a return when pasted in putty. This could sometimes (specially with the mail part) cause errors!

Anyway.. Good to hear that it's working now.