setting up home email possible DNS issue

Yakyb

Yakyb

Yakyb

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to cut an average length story short, i used to have my own personal email address setup that was run from my home server.

i cleared a whole load of setting 6 months ago as i wasn't using it but im looking to get the settings back

i can send email out fine however i cannot receive (from external).

i cant remember how i had it setup previously, however and think i have some DNS issue

if i setup the mx priority 1 as mail

so then mail A record (mail.XXXX.co.uk) becomes my mail

if someone sends an email to [email protected]

does the email then come in on port 25 at which point my port forwarding takes this to my internal ip 192.168.2.3 for example and the server picks it up

how do i specify what port mail.XXXX.co.uk uses? does this default to 25 or am i missing something

thanks for any help
 
it appears that that the mx is setup correctly


i presume this defaults to port 25 in which case it should be being forwarded correctly by the router

and then hitting my email machine

any tools around to test what happens if i ping port 25 externally to my network and see if it is picked up on the correct machine?
 
i have just tried that it appears to work on the machine itself but on another machine on the same network it doesnt want to connect

i.e

telnet
o 192.168.2.3 25

i'm pretty sure there are no firewalls between the two machines

this is windows server 2003 btw
 
What email server are you using??

It's probably configured not to listen for mails coming in externally as by default that can lead to it being used as a mail relay by spammers . You'll need to edit the config to tell it to listen on all interfaces (or localhost and 192.168.2.3
 
Remember to check the obvious as well; Windows Firewall.

It could be what whitecrook suggested as well - feel free to add us to MSN and I'll happily help you diagnose this.
 
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