cotfessi
03-02-2001, 11:45 AM
I have a domain name, mydomain.com, that I have pointing to a DNS redirection service. I keep my DNS redirection service account updated with my current dynamically assinged IP address.
This all worrks quite well. I can type www.mydomain.com (http://www.mydomain.com) into a web browser and i can connect to my website using apache. I can even send mail my yahoo mail account to my machine and it finds it no problem... The problem comes when I try to send mail out from my machine
me@yahoo.com --> to --> me@mydomain.com works!
me@yahoo.com <-- to <-- me@mydomain.com times out!
I looked in a log directory for exim and found entries in a log file that showed my computer connecting to yahoo servers and it said timed out on each line...
Does anyone know why this might be happening? The only thing that I can think of is that I might be firewalling a port that exim needs to communicate with an external server? I have port 25 open, is that all that is needed?
This all worrks quite well. I can type www.mydomain.com (http://www.mydomain.com) into a web browser and i can connect to my website using apache. I can even send mail my yahoo mail account to my machine and it finds it no problem... The problem comes when I try to send mail out from my machine
me@yahoo.com --> to --> me@mydomain.com works!
me@yahoo.com <-- to <-- me@mydomain.com times out!
I looked in a log directory for exim and found entries in a log file that showed my computer connecting to yahoo servers and it said timed out on each line...
Does anyone know why this might be happening? The only thing that I can think of is that I might be firewalling a port that exim needs to communicate with an external server? I have port 25 open, is that all that is needed?