At one time I used my mailserver to send mail as well as receive, but because I was using a dynamic IP, I ended up being blocked by some servers. Now that I'm static, I'd like to go back to using my own server, but for the life of my cannot figure out what's preventing me from connecting my mail program to my smtp server. Where should I start to look? :)
Make sure postfix is running, try a "sudo postfix start" and try again. If postfix is running and you still can't connect look in /var/log/mail.log for clues.
29 Apr 2008
Hi Richard, all.
At one time I used my mailserver to send mail as well as receive, but because I was using a dynamic IP, I ended up being blocked by some servers. Now that I'm static, I'd like to go back to using my own server, but for the life of my cannot figure out what's preventing me from connecting my mail program to my smtp server. Where should I start to look? :)
DW
30 Apr 2008
Make sure postfix is running, try a "sudo postfix start" and try again. If postfix is running and you still can't connect look in /var/log/mail.log for clues.