Mail Send Problem

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gmdesign

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Hello!

I have DA installed on Free BSD and it works for about 1,5 year and works great, I can't remember serious problems for this period, but suddenly, several days ago, I noticed problems with mail server. Mails from outside world arrive and there is no problem, also there is no problem with LOCAL mail, (e.g. mail whose domains are located on my server as virtual hosts) they are sent correctly, but by some reasons, server wont send mail to outside world, for example:

when I try to send mail to live.com, webmail says that mail sent, but when I go and look in logs, I see there something like this: (I've changed real address with "myaddress" and real domain with "localdomain")

Code:
2009-03-11 15:43:53 1LhMqn-000DMt-TN <= myaddress@localdomain H=localhost.localdomain (www.localdomain) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtpa A=login:myaddress@localdomain S=564 [email protected] T="Test" from <myaddress@localdomain> for [email protected]
2009-03-11 15:45:08 1LhMqn-000DMt-TN mx1.hotmail.com [65.55.37.104] Operation timed out
2009-03-11 15:46:23 1LhMqn-000DMt-TN mx1.hotmail.com [65.55.37.72] Operation timed out
2009-03-11 15:47:38 1LhMqn-000DMt-TN mx3.hotmail.com [65.55.92.168] Operation timed out
2009-03-11 15:47:38 1LhMqn-000DMt-TN == [email protected] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (60): Operation timed out

same is for gmail, but when I try to send mail to yahoo, mail is returned back to me. so can you help me, where to search for problem and what to fix? the most strange thing is, that I have not changed anything on my server for about 2 or 3 months and what triggered this problem I can't understand.

Thanks.
 
Check your firewall and that it can make connections outbound to port 25.
 
You should also, from the command line, type (the $ means you don't do it as root):
Code:
$ telnet mx1.hotmail.com 25
What do you get?

Jeff
 
well after some investigation, I found out that it was our providers issue, I can't understand why but thay decided to block foreign smtps... so after a talk with tham, all is ok.

Anyway thank's for your help and sorry for this silly issue :)
 
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