First thing - have you configured postfix to listen to port 25 from the world?<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>When you connect from outside your local network, do your logs show a connection? If so, what are the appropriate entries and do they give any reason for the rejection? If not, what exactly happens when you connect over port 25 - do you get a real error from the application, does the connection just hang with no answer, or is it a connection refused?
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Brad<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 26, 2007 3:29 PM, Robert Wolfe <<a href="mailto:robertwolfe@localnet.com">robertwolfe@localnet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Erek Dyskant wrote:<br>> Robert,<br>> Your ISP is probably filtering port 25 outside of their network, as
<br>> ISPs have had so many problems with open relays sucking up all their<br>> bandwidth. Sadly to run a mail server these days one generally needs to<br>> have a dedicated server or a business-class connection these days.
<br>> Call your ISP to ask what ports they filter, and see if there's any way<br>> you can convince them you know what you're doing (if your ISP is<br>> localnet you may be in luck <grin>)<br>
> Best of luck.<br>><br>> --Erek<br>><br><br></div>Actually, if I switch over to my Windoze-based mail server, SMTP traffic<br>flows just fine over port 25.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Robert Wolfe
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