Nigel Kendrick wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf >Of Chris Mauritz >Sent: 09 May 2005 13:36 >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 / Postfix / SMTP > > >Nigel Kendrick wrote: > > > >>I've just installed Centos 4 on an Acer G310 server - everything's gone >>well except I'm not able to SMTP connect to my upstream mail server >>(I've installed postfix + MailScanner) - I managed to find sort out the >>dovecot side of things but SMTP remains quite silent - the maillog >>shows an attempted connect but then a timeout: >> >>May 9 13:08:45 woking postfix/smtp[7895]: deliver_request_final: send: >>"connect to mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98]: Connection timed out" -1 >> >>If I connect manually (telnet mailhost.zen.co.uk 25) nothing happens - >>no response is shown and I presume if I left things for long enough I'd >>see a timeout message? Here's the output from netstat -pant: >> >> >> >> >> > >Do you have the firewall turned on and filtering port 25? If you can't >telnet to the remote host port manually then you're getting filtered >either on your host or on the remote host. > >Cheers, > >C > >Nope - no firewall - I've just double checked: > >[root at woking ~]# chkconfig --list | grep ip >iptables 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off > >Nigel > > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > That only confirms that the service is not configured to auto-start (which I agree, should me it is not running) but you may want to confirm this by running something like 'iptables -L' Cheers, Bards.