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no where else to turn- help with qmail?

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Ben98SentraSE

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Sorry to clutter this forum with this, but I KNOW you guys will know the answer, or at least where to start looking for a problem.

Yesterday we got DSL at work with a static IP (YEA!) and it's working great for outgoing internet traffic. Problem is McLeod USA's outgoing mail server doesn't allow email to be relayed that doesn't have an @mcleodusa.net at the end, therefore we cannot send email using our old email addresses. Welp, I have a linux server here with sendmail configured and ready to get our domain's MX record changed to point to it and have email at our domain adminned in house by yours truly. Well I could send via that box, but it wouldn't go anywhere, just into the mail queue and sit. I am a linuxconf sendmail configurer (which is pathetic, I know) and could not figure out how to get to it go out to the net. My friends (who aren't online right now) use qmail and say that it's so much more secure than sendmail and easier to configure too. So I download it, take the time to read all the install docs and do it right. Well I got it up and running, but when you telnet to port 25 it opens the connection and IMMEDIATELY closes it whether you telnet to it locally or remotely. I have NO idea where to go from here. We need to send email! Help! 🙁
 
I've been working on getting sendmail setup on my NetBSD. The "mails" (sendmail, qmail, etc) use port 25 as their relay port so I would think that telnetting to them directly should cause them to do odd things or not work at all!

If you need to telnet, you should do so to the mail box and then manually edit the config files.

It could be your ISP is blocking port 25 except for their own stuff, but that's just one idea. There's several reasons why the mail won't go... I need to look at my stuff just to see the possbilities.
 
I use sendmail... lots of sendmail.. anyway for relaying you need a directive in your sendmail.cf that looks like this

# Hosts that will permit relaying ($=R)
FR-o /etc/mail/relay-domains %[^\#]

and an /etc/mail/relay-domains file that looks like

vt.edu
cuddlecuddle.org
digitalempire.org

just one domain you want to relay for after another. I hope that helps a little.
 
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