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Old 4th November 2011, 15:30
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Hi. I have a VPS with Ubuntu LAMP 10.4; Postfix; courier; IMAP I can send and receive emails on it, but when I try to use it w/ Thunderbird or Outlook from my home PC I get:
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554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied
Also when I try to telnet from my windows PC i get
Code:
 Could not open connection to the host on port 23. Connect failed
Whats the proper settings of Postfix to achive this? and what port to use? I guess its 110 for pop3 ?
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Old 4th November 2011, 18:14
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Did you enable "My outgoing server (SMPT) requires authentication", and set it to "Use same settings as my incoming mail server"?
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Did you enable "My outgoing server (SMPT) requires authentication", and set it to "Use same settings as my incoming mail server"?
how would I do it? Currently it's not an open relay if thats your question.
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Also when I try to telnet from my windows PC i get
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 Could not open connection to the host on port 23. Connect failed
Whats the proper settings of Postfix to achive this? and what port to use? I guess its 110 for pop3 ?
The proper port for SMTP and Telnet is port 25.

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how would I do it? Currently it's not an open relay if thats your question.
In Outlook: Change E-mail Account ===> More Settings ... ===> Outgoing Server ===> My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication ===> Use same settings as my incoming server.
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I did it and I get error: The mail server responded: 5.7.1 Relay access denied. Cannot deliver to xxx@gmail.com Please check your recepient. I think the problem is in the postfix configuration.
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Please check if your server is blacklisted: http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
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Please check if your server is blacklisted: http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
The IP is clean. The problem is in the postfix config. can some1 tell me the proper config pls so I can use my server as a relay and send from my home PC w/ Thunderbird or Outlook. With Thunderbird I can connect to the server and see the messages in the inbox and read them, but when I try to send mail I get the above mentioned error
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Did you enable "Server requires authentication" in your email client?

What's in your main.cf?

Where is the server hosted? Does it have a static or dynamic IP?
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