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Mail routing

I'm trying to setup a linux machine as mail server and at this point the internal mail service it's already working, but when i try to send an message out of my company domain, it just don't go out. It could be a network configuration problem or a mail service configration problem? The rest of the services (internet browsing, telnet, ftp, etc.) are working fine (nternal and external). I check the routing table and it seem to be fine. The linux server it's behind a Microsoft Proxy server. Thank you.

tknayak

Most probably it seems a network configuration problem. I am not sure about Microsoft proxy server, but I guess it doesnt allow to connect to the netowrk directly. You can verify using ping.

# ping www.yahoo.com

If you get the reply then you are okay with your network configuration. You need to then check your mail configuration. Most probable reason will be the Relaying. Enter the machine's IP you are sending mail from in the /etc/mail/access file. HTH

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pitagoras

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When i try to ping www.yahoo.com i got the "Destination host unreachable" error. I made some changes in the route table and the i just get the "timeout" error; anyway the mail didn't go out. By the other side i'm using Postfix as mail server, it have the same relay issues than Sendmail?

Thanks

pitagoras

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Thank you.

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Pitagoras