[CLUE-Tech] how to troubleshoot smtp server

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:23, Jeffrey Greer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this list.  I plan to attend my first CLUE meeting next week and I 
> would like to get involved.
> 
> I've been using linux for 4 years, but I have not done much real system 
> administration.  I am having a problem setting up email on a dedicated linux 
> server I just purchased.  The remote machine is buddha.whitebuddha.com.  When 
> I send email from a remote machine via smtp it just gets lost.  Sendmail is 
> running at buddha and I can send email locally with pine, but nothing comes 
> in remotely.  I can't find anything in /var/log/maillog.  I'm running redhat 
> 7.2.  I've configured the nameserver at www.dnsmadeeasy.com.  Dnsmadeeasy.com 
> automatically edits the soa file through a web form.  I've set up the MX 
> record to point to whitebuddha.com.
> 
> I don't really have any idea how to troubleshoot this or what docs to look 
> at.  Could someone here give me some suggestions?
> 

Looks like you might have the firewall configured so that it isn't
allowing incoming SMTP traffic.  You can use "lokkit" to check and/or
edit the firewall rules.

hth,
Ed


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