Comments on: Can send email out, but not receive

By: vonsim

vonsim — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:16:13 +0000

Please, why not resolve/check your pop3 and smtp settings.Thank you

By: imaginetsecurity

imaginetsecurity — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:30:07 +0000

I take it you are trying to provide external clients with access to the email server. Are you looking to do this via a web browser client (like Outlook Web Access would be for Exchange) or just from any email client or webmail service anywhere?

If you are looking to have fully qualified domain name(s) (FQDN) for mail.domain.com or smtp.domain.com, you will need to register them as any other domain name or have your DNS provider create pointers for them. I would use just mail.domain.com and have it resolve to the mail server for both POP3 and SMTP requests. Then you setup another forwarding rule on the router for the FQDN external/internal mapping just as you did for the MX record, if the addresses are different from the MX.

Or are you looking to have an email server in a DMZ through which service is passed to and from the internal mail server?

What specifically is your confusion on the firewall/w2k setup?

By: raistlinmajere

raistlinmajere — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:11:06 +0000

Ok, I got the incoming and outgoing working ok. I am still confused as far as the configuration of the firewall / w2k is concerned though.

The mx record is pointing to the router which in turn gets forwarded to the server. That works ok. My problem is how do i setup an external mail host such as

mail.xxx.com or smtp/pop.xxx.com

(no it is not a porn site)

thanks again
eric