On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:30:09AM -0600 or thereabouts, Gary wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:31:33AM -0600 or thereabouts, Linuxjim wrote:
I read up on Qmail and find it very interesting. However since I already have Postfix up and running (form default installation) I have been workign with that. I have been able to send email out to internet addresses, but cannot receive email from internet. I read somewhere that I need to us Procmail as well as postfix. How do I configure that??
You will not be able to receive mail from the internet directly, as Earthlink blocks incoming port 25.. You must use their servers. They started this about 2 years ago..
Procmail is not a MTA.. It is used for filtering mail that you download from your POP server.
As my own follow-up, Earthlink also blocks outgoing SMTP mail (port25) except to their own servers. so you apparently set up Postfix correctly to use the SMTP server to send your mail... Since your Earthlink mail address is listed in their DNS records, as it is their domain, ll your earthlink mail is pointed towards their servers, via the MX DNS record. You will never be able to have mail sent directly to you with an Earthlink domain. If you want to receive mail directly, you would need your own domain, DNS records pointing to your IP address, to include an MX record, and not use Earthlink as an ISP. <g> -- Gary