Recompile PHP after Sendmail reconfigured ?

[till]

Originally Posted by Roman

I have a router sitting on a static IP (216.188.249.98) and server connected to the router and assigned the 192.168.1.2. In order to see my website inside the firewall (router) I have to type 192.168.1.2 and not www.rcbazaar.com. Linksys told me that this is OK, but I really think there must be a way to work around this. Our mail accounts are hosted outside our intranet with a web hosting company, which is also holding our DNS record.
Is it possible that all the problems with sendmail are actually DNS problems and how can I test this?

Appreciate you help !

Roman

You can test if this are DNS or routing problems:

Please try to connect to the yahoo mailserver via telnet on the shell of your server. Enter the command:

telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com 25

When you got an answer from the serve, you can close the connection by typing "quit".

The testsession should look similar like this:

# telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com 25
Trying 68.142.202.12...
Connected to mta-v4.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mta230.mail.mud.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready
quit
221 mta230.mail.mud.yahoo.com
Connection closed by foreign host.

If not, please post the output in the forum.

[Roman]

It only comes to:

[root@www ~]# telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com 25
Trying 68.142.202.11...

and then stays there. On my router I have both ports 25 and 110 TCP enabled.
I guess we are getting closer to the real problem.
??

Thanks,
Roman

[till]

Originally Posted by Roman

It only comes to:

[root@www ~]# telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com 25
Trying 68.142.202.11...

and then stays there. On my router I have both ports 25 and 110 TCP enabled.
I guess we are getting closer to the real problem.
??

Name resolution works on your server, beacuse it resolves mx4.mail.yahoo.com to the correct IP 68.142.202.11

Yes were getting closer It seems you have firewall or something like that in your router enabled, that blocks outbound connections (YourServer => Internet) on Port 25.

[Roman]

Since I don't have a DNS running on my machine, does it mean that yahoo gets resolved externally? If so, than it does go out through 25, right? Is it possible that some of the settings I made in Evolution have messed up the sendmail?

Thanks,

Roman

[till]

Originally Posted by Roman

Since I don't have a DNS running on my machine, does it mean that yahoo gets resolved externally?

Yes. But in many cases you set the nmeserver simply to the IP of your router and the router (gateway) resolves the names for you.

Originally Posted by Roman

If so, than it does go out through 25, right?

No, nameservice is port 53.

Originally Posted by Roman

Is it possible that some of the settings I made in Evolution have messed up the sendmail?

No, your problems have nothing to do with sendmail. We tried to connect via telnet on port 25, telnet is independant from sendmail, and the connection was not possible. It is a problem with your router or another firewall or maybe your internet provider blocks connections on port 25 to other servers that the mailrelay of your provider.

[Roman]

Very impressive. I would have never expected my ISP provider to block traffic on port 25.
As soon as I called them and they changed the setting, everything worked like a champ.

Thank you very much

Roman

[falko]

Originally Posted by Roman

I would have never expected my ISP provider to block traffic on port 25.

I have the same problem here in my Internetcafé that I have to use during my holidays. I hope some day an internet connection will be as common as a shower in an accommodation...