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  • Internet Email not delivered to the board

    From nolageek@VERT to All on Tue Jul 29 09:50:33 2014
    I've noticed that I can send mail out to the internet, but incoming messages never make it to the board. I don't even see connections coming in... MX records look good and I have ports 25 and 587 open the firewall. Anything else I can check config wise? EMTP is "Enabled" in the Sync Control Panel.

    I've run some tests at pingability and other DNS/Mail test and they usually say they time out while trying to connect.

    Any suggestions?

    |01-|03nolageek


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  • From Nightfox@VERT to nolageek on Tue Jul 29 12:27:08 2014
    I've noticed that I can send mail out to the internet, but incoming
    messages never make it to the board. I don't even see connections coming in... MX records look good and I have ports 25 and 587 open the firewall. Anything else I can check config wise? EMTP is "Enabled" in the Sync Control Panel.

    I've run some tests at pingability and other DNS/Mail test and they usually say they time out while trying to connect.

    Any suggestions?

    Your ISP may be blocking the standard SMTP mail port, as some ISPs are doing these days. If that's the case, you might need to use a port redirection service - Basically, how that works is that someone's redirection service listens on that port for your DNS and then forwards it to you at a different port. I've been using DNSExit for this very purpose on my BBS, and it has
    been working fairly well:
    http://www.dnsexit.com/Direct.sv?cmd=mailRedirect

    Nightfox

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  • From nolageek@VERT to Nightfox on Tue Jul 29 23:05:40 2014
    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: Nightfox to nolageek on Tue Jul 29 2014 12:27 pm

    Your ISP may be blocking the standard SMTP mail port, as some ISPs are doing these days. If that's the case, you might need to use a port

    While I wouldn't rule it out, the server is on a cloud AWS instance at Amazon so I can't image they'd be blocking ports. I have full access to the
    firewall and can open/close ports at will. After ports, how can I be sure the bbs is listening?

    |01-|03nolageek



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  • From Mro@VERT to nolageek on Wed Jul 30 03:26:19 2014
    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: nolageek to All on Tue Jul 29 2014 09:50 am

    I've noticed that I can send mail out to the internet, but incoming
    messages never make it to the board. I don't even see connections coming in... MX records look good and I have ports 25 and 587 open the firewall.


    well i connected to you on port 25 but it took a long time.
    i had to mash the keys to get something to come up.

    paste a SS of your mx records and what isp are you using?
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  • From nolageek@VERT to Mro on Wed Jul 30 09:43:23 2014
    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: Mro to nolageek on Wed Jul 30 2014 03:26 am

    Here's a quick imgur album with my DNS records and the result of a mxtoolbox.check.

    http://imgur.com/a/MBNvZ


    Thanks for the assistance!

    |01-|03nolageek


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  • From Nightfox@VERT to nolageek on Wed Jul 30 07:51:06 2014
    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: nolageek to Nightfox on Tue Jul 29 2014 23:05:40

    While I wouldn't rule it out, the server is on a cloud AWS instance at Amazon so I can't image they'd be blocking ports. I have full access to the firewall and can open/close ports at will. After ports, how can I be sure the bbs is listening?

    Yeah, it's hard to imagine AWS would block ports.. If you want to be sure the BBS is listening, I suppose you could try to telnet to your BBS on the SMTP port and see if it connects and responds with anything.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mro@VERT to nolageek on Wed Jul 30 17:10:33 2014
    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: nolageek to Mro on Wed Jul 30 2014 09:43 am

    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: Mro to nolageek on Wed Jul 30 2014 03:26 am

    Here's a quick imgur album with my DNS records and the result of a mxtoolbox.check.

    http://imgur.com/a/MBNvZ



    so you are using amazon. is there anything in their tos that says you can not run email servers?
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  • From nolageek@VERT to Mro on Wed Jul 30 20:39:41 2014
    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: Mro to nolageek on Wed Jul 30 2014 05:10 pm

    so you are using amazon. is there anything in their tos that says you can not run email servers?

    Not that I can see - the weird thing is I was just trying different options and I found that after I disabled "Authenticated Users Can Relay Via This Server" that everything started working again. Wierd.

    Seems to be working just fine now.

    |01-|03nolageek



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  • From Mro@VERT to nolageek on Thu Jul 31 17:07:10 2014
    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: nolageek to Mro on Wed Jul 30 2014 08:39 pm

    Re: Internet Email not delivered to the board
    By: Mro to nolageek on Wed Jul 30 2014 05:10 pm

    so you are using amazon. is there anything in their tos that says you can not run email servers?

    Not that I can see - the weird thing is I was just trying different options and I found that after I disabled "Authenticated Users Can Relay Via This Server" that everything started working again. Wierd.

    Seems to be working just fine now.


    is your domain name in your aliases.cfg ?
    didnt you say that you didnt see anything in the control panel when sending test msgs? if this is true, than changing that setting didn't do anything.
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