kiss / e-mail and rdns

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flumps

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Im having trouble reciviing emails to one of my servers that has kiss running... does anyone know the port numbers for e-mail as I got a feeling it could be that.

a friend said it could be cause theres no rdns setup on the ip either...

The company who provide me the rackspace have their own contorl panel for managing the ip's etc for the rackspace and ive set the server host name as for the ip so it should read servername.thedomain.com but it doesnt seem to show up in the tracert can anyone provide info on how to set this up correctly?

many thanks.
 
Ports to open include:

port 25, the smtp port
port 587, the authenticated submission port
port 110, the POP3 port
port 143, the IMAP port

(but only port 25 should affect incoming emails from other mailservers)

You should have reverse DNS set up by your connection provider, but again, that shold only affect outgoing email; not incoming email.

Jeff
 
thanks for your help guys :d

one quick question though are they TCP IN/OUT UDP etc?
 
I can send out but cannot recieve :(

I gmail returns this trying to send an e-mail to the address...

Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
to me

show details
9:16 pm (0 minutes ago)
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
retry timeout exceeded

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
 
It appears there's no mail server running at address.com.

The address.com domain uses affinitypath.com to manage it's email.

Please check here.

Jeff
 
jeff,

that link is useless it basically says dont hide my ip address / dns address on public newsgroups / forums.

well surly it should be up to me if I wish to do so. besides telling you my ip addresses doesnt really make a bit of differences as you dont have root access to the server to do the "diagnostic tests" it says in that link.

if I dont have a mail server installed how does the server send e-mail out?

regards.
 
What Jeff was trying to tell you with that link is that because you obscured your domain name in the post where you put
[email protected]
retry timeout exceeded
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we can't determine anything about your server. And this
besides telling you my ip addresses doesnt really make a bit of differences as you dont have root access to the server to do the "diagnostic tests" it says in that link.
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is 100% wrong. We can still try telnetting into port 25 to see if the port is accessible from the outside internet. We can test sending an email to it in debug mode to see what MTAs see. There is alot of tests that can be run without root access but when you obscure the dns like that, we can't run those tests and honestly can't help you any further than saying "check your settings".
 
think ive got it sorted now...

I jsut deleted the e-mail account and re created it and it appears to be working fine now lol.

how odd could of sworn I tried that but oh well.

check your settings
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ok lesson leared for the future me thinks hehe.
 
flumps said:
jeff,

that link is useless it basically says dont hide my ip address / dns address on public newsgroups / forums.

well surly it should be up to me if I wish to do so. besides telling you my ip addresses doesnt really make a bit of differences as you dont have root access to the server to do the "diagnostic tests" it says in that link.
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This has already been responded to.
if I dont have a mail server installed how does the server send e-mail out?
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I was pointing out that you were telling us your domain name was address.com. Since it wasn't, all you were doing was wasting the time of those of us who would try to help you. Please, if you expect us to help you, be helpful to us.

Thanks.

Jeff
 
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