openwebmail

[raymond79]

Hi there,

My problem is that i setup the openwebmail on linux 2.4... going to adduser and etc ... I fill out all the info and when im done... im able to send out email but not recieve... what could be the problem?


Thanks!

[aktiwari4u]

i think u have not made msexchange entry in your dns server
most of the time if we have not defined any msexchange entry .
i think after this entry u should be able to recieve mails.

[twin_mendoza]

i have the same problem like <raymond79>
but i used Sendmail 8.12.8 and Cyrus SASL 2.1.10 for my SMTP and used and for my POP i used Qpopper 4.0.5...

the problem is i can send an email in any address but i cant recieve any mail... can someone help me with this  

thnk you in advance

[aktiwari4u]

i think for you both mail exchanger entry is must in your DNS server. for your pop3 server. and this may solv your problem .

[twin_mendoza]

thankyou for the reply... i search all over the internet to find HOWTO or FAQ for this but im not luky to find one.... i attach herre the message of the deamon of the yahoo because he can not find my mail addrees.

here is the outpu

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<webmaster@my-site.com>:
Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <twin_mendoza@yahoo.com>
Received: (qmail 72678 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Feb 2006 08:19:02
-0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
  s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
 
h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding;
 
b=La5mL7vXV0M6A6EnA45j04rG/qS6j2Wz0YT0PUOl+UK/R5qy/AIRn0vLR+95wY1B6N98PvtRtQf0/6YIIFtfMpZ/clme+GBwN+K6MvEBuNEpzYOKeXVWmr4+TjBkFHYQ9WEBd3ZMmK9tOs2dWi5QkeAwFm9K3FjWuFtQ/udJWj0=  
;
Message-ID: <20060216081902.72676.qmail@web35412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Received: from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] by web35412.mail.mud.yahoo.com via
HTTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:19:02 PST
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:19:02 -0800 (PST)
From: twin <twin_mendoza@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: TEST MESSAGE 4:12pM
To: webmaster <webmaster@my-site.com>
In-Reply-To: <1140077540.4284.1.camel@my-site.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit



--- webmaster <webmaster@my-site.com> wrote:

> testing again
>
>


i can send email message in internet..,
my problem is i cant recieve any messages in my mailserver (i.e. twin_mendoza@my-site.com

can someone help me... thanks in advance

[aktiwari4u]

This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<webmaster@my-site.com>:
Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
dear friend have a look on the last line its showing that it could not find any mail exchanger so here is your problem
to resolve this problem u should make a mail exchanger entry in your DNS server by providing the ip address of your pop3 server for your domain .

[twin_mendoza]

i tried to modify the file /etc/named.conf and add this line

>zone "my-site.com" IN {
>   type master;
>   file "my-site.com.zone";
>   allow-update { none; };
>};

and also i modify the on in /var/named/my-site.com.zone to bind my address

>$TTL 86400
>$ORIGIN somefakedomain.com.
>@     IN       SOA           ns1.my-site.com. webmaster.my-site.com. (
>          2006021601                ; serial
>          21600                        ; refresh
>          3600                         ; retry
>          604800                       ; expires
>          86400 )                ; minimum
>
>         IN   NS      ns1.my-site.com.
>
>         IN   MX   10    mail.my-site.com.
>
>         IN   A        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
>ns1      IN        A             xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>www    IN      A           xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>mail       IN         A             xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

and do a nslookup

>nslookup
>server 127.0.0.1
>my-site.com
>www.my-site.com
>mail.my-site.com

and still it wont work, i cannot still recieve emails coming in internet... can you give me the exact steps to configure my box.

and thnk you for your quick reply @ ***aktiwari4u***

[aktiwari4u]

i think this step is fine. you need to check if any firewall is running or not and if so then check if ports are open for mail to work fine following ports need to be open.

Outbound ports (tcp)

25 - SMTP
110 - POP services
143 - IMAP
783 - Spamassassin
993 - IMAPS

Inbound Ports (tcp)

25 - SMTP
80 - HTTP
110 - POP services
143 - IMAP
443 - HTTPS
783 - Spamassassin
993 - IMAPS