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The idea was to login to the server with the credentials of the appropriate user. BTW - If you change the permissions of ALL the directories under home, there's at least a 50/50 chance that no one will be able to access their home. Ed

> is qmail doing a DNS lookup of your public IP address? Again, that was part of MY question. > There are two ways around this that I can think of: 1 - put this in your host file, 2 - host your own authoritative DNS, such as BIND and have it resolve your IP. If you're referring to...

Before I say anything else, I want to say thank you for sticking with me on this. I appreciate your help. You're right. This has gotten pretty convoluted. I've attempted to untangle things a bit & made a few discoveries in the process. I'll try to relate what I've done & what I've discovered...

No. That didn't work either. The config script that does the DNS lookup apparently gets my IP# & does a reverse lookup so it returns MY ISP's name for the router. This is killing me. :( Ed

Thanks for the info. I had just about come to some of the same conclusions. I spent quite a while playing with DNS to get myself up to speed again. Sort of. What I think may be happening (& I'd have mentioned it sooner if I had thought of it sooner) is something like this: I have a public IP...

Well 1st, let me apologize for not answering your questions directly & fully. I've had too much on my plate lately to be able to concentrate properly on anything. Now..... >When you tried to connect to yahoo via telnet, where did >it fail and what error message did you get? It never...

In a previous post I worked through getting mail to leave my local network. The solution was to enter e relayhost in smtproutes. That is really not what I want to have to do. I would much prefer a DNS lookup to determine the routing. So my question is: why isn't a DNS lookup being done? Is there...

Ok. I got an email to go outbound. Finally!!!! I had to enter a relay server in smtproutes. I really didn't want to do that. I would much prefer that outbound mail be routed via DNS lookup. That will be the subject of my next question, which I will post as: DNS vs. SMTPROUTES? Ed

Could you be a little more specific? Part 5 of what book or howto? Ed

Well I was able to send myself an email via telnet per your instructions. I can't get connected to a Yahoo mail server. So I'm guessing port 25 isn't blocked. At least for now. My ISP is in the process of switching all accounts to IMAP on a gmail server. The server I just telneted to won't be...

THIS MAY BE RELATED TO MY LAST QUESTION: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1) ************************************************************** ************************************************************** I've been having some problems getting qmail to run properly...

Well I'm not on Spamcop's blacklist. The ip address of the server is private but the ip of the router is public. I had a friend telnet into my server on ports 25 & 80. I was able to connect to a couple of different smtp mail servers on port 25 so I don't think port blocking is the problem. I...

I followed Life With qmail for installation on a Compaq laptop running Ubuntu 10.04.01 64 bit. Everything went fine until testing. All of the local send & receive tests succeeded. I can receive mail from from a remote host (my yahoo account). Testing outbound mail failed. I cant get any mail...

I can browse the shares on Win XP but when I try to open them I get access violation errors. For the /home share (2 users) I get "Access denied". For the share /home/ed/Public I get "Network path not found". Everything works fine when browsing & mounting Win shares on the Linux box. The Linux...