Not able to connect to linux mail server

I have a linux mail server running in my network. I am not able to
connect to this mail server from a winxp client. What could be the
problem. Any tips

Thanks and Regards
Vinayak

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vinayak wrote:

> I have a linux mail server running in my network. I am not able to
> connect to this mail server from a winxp client. What could be the
> problem. Any tips

Firewall?
Network interface?s

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Alo wrote:
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> > I have a linux mail server running in my network. I am not able to
> > connect to this mail server from a winxp client. What could be the
> > problem. Any tips
>
> Firewall?
> Network interface?s
>
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> Alo [alo(@)uk2.net]
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By mistake I had blocked the pop3 port in the firewall. Now am able to
access the mail server and get my mails but not able to send. The error
message i am getting is "Unable to connect to the smtp server". I am
using sendmail as the MTA. Do I need to use a separate SMTP server

vinayak wrote:
> Alo wrote:
>> vinayak wrote:
>>
>>> I have a linux mail server running in my network. I am not able to
>>> connect to this mail server from a winxp client. What could be the
>>> problem. Any tips
>> Firewall?
>> Network interface?s
>
> By mistake I had blocked the pop3 port in the firewall. Now am able to
> access the mail server and get my mails but not able to send. The error
> message i am getting is "Unable to connect to the smtp server". I am
> using sendmail as the MTA. Do I need to use a separate SMTP server

No, sendmail should do it, but sendmail configuration can be tricky.

Check your syslog for clues, I'd say.

On 8 Sep 2006 13:41:38 -0700
"vinayak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have a linux mail server running in my network. I am not able to
> connect to this mail server from a winxp client. What could be the
> problem. Any tips

1: replace your windows xp box.
2: ?
3: Profit


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ed wrote:
> On 8 Sep 2006 13:41:38 -0700
> "vinayak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > I have a linux mail server running in my network. I am not able to
> > connect to this mail server from a winxp client. What could be the
> > problem. Any tips
>
> 1: replace your windows xp box.
> 2: ?
> 3: Profit
>
>
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> A man once spent three days climbing a mountain only to discover that
> it was Chuck Norris' penis.

That is my next phase of action. My Colleagues have got so used to
windows it is going to be difficult for me to change the platform from
windows to Linux(even though the cost-saving is very high).
Vinayak

vinayak wrote:

>
> By mistake I had blocked the pop3 port in the firewall. Now am able to
> access the mail server and get my mails but not able to send. The error
> message i am getting is "Unable to connect to the smtp server". I am
> using sendmail as the MTA. Do I need to use a separate SMTP server
>

Check also smtp port (25).
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> By mistake I had blocked the pop3 port in the firewall. Now am able to
> access the mail server and get my mails but not able to send. The error
> message i am getting is "Unable to connect to the smtp server". I am
> using sendmail as the MTA. Do I need to use a separate SMTP server

- From linux :

nmap -p 25 localhost

25/tcp open

(OK)

nmap -p 25 ip.ofyour.network.card

25/tcp open

(OK)

If this nmap show "closed" your sendmail is not running in your network
card, only in your localhost, reconfigure sendmail... for security
reasons sendmail is configured by default only in your "localhost" for
many distributions of linux.

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> I have a linux mail server running in my network. I am not able
> to connect to this mail server from a winxp client. What could
> be the problem. Any tips
>

You are using a throwaway alias and posting through an anonymous
proxy:

X-Trace: posting.google.com 1157748103 8850 127.0.0.1 (8 Sep 2006 20:41:43 GMT)

That's what that 127.0.0.1 means.

And are using a throwaway and anonymous gmail address.

And obviously aren't running Linux:

> X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)

I'm inclined to suspect that it it isn't YOUR Linux server that
you want to connect to with your winxp client.

Alan

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