Nigel Kendrick wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Chris Mauritz
>Sent: 09 May 2005 13:36
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: Centos 4 / Postfix / SMTP
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>Nigel Kendrick wrote:
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>>I've just installed Centos 4 on an Acer G310 server - everything's gone
>>well except I'm not able to SMTP connect to my upstream mail server
>>(I've installed postfix + MailScanner) - I managed to find sort out the
>>dovecot side of things but SMTP remains quite silent - the maillog
>>shows an attempted connect but then a timeout:
>>
>>May 9 13:08:45 woking postfix/smtp[7895]: deliver_request_final: send:
>>"connect to mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98]: Connection timed out" -1
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>>If I connect manually (telnet mailhost.zen.co.uk 25) nothing happens -
>>no response is shown and I presume if I left things for long enough I'd
>>see a timeout message? Here's the output from netstat -pant:
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>Do you have the firewall turned on and filtering port 25? If you can't
>telnet to the remote host port manually then you're getting filtered
>either on your host or on the remote host.
>
>Cheers,
>
>C
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>Nope - no firewall - I've just double checked:
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>[root@woking ~]# chkconfig --list | grep ip
>iptables 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
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>Nigel
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That only confirms that the service is not configured to auto-start
(which I agree, should me it is not running) but you may want to confirm
this by running something like 'iptables -L'
Cheers,
Bards.
