running exim mail server

[Alan Cohen]

Hello Dave

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 15:32, dave morton wrote:
> I am trying to set up a mail server for internet access.
> 
> Debian, exim 3.35 (woody)
> 
> My firewall rule for port 25:        iptables -A INPUT -j ACCEPT -p  tcp 
> --dport 25
> 
> I can retrieve mail remotely from the pop server, but I can't send from 
> outside hosts.
> 
> Typing  'telnet mycompany.com 25'  on a remote computer causes a 
> 'connection refused' response
> Typing  'telnet mycompany.com 25' on the local server allows the connection 
> ready for transmit/receive
> 
> I have configured eximconfig by answering option #1 (mail service for 
> internet use)

A couple of things to try:
 - temporarily disable the iptables stuff and see if that makes a
   difference
 - consult exim's log which is named something like
   /var/log/exim/mainlog or /var/log/exim.mainlog and see if it has
   something interesting to say

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