Configuration & Smarthost

[JonAnder]

Hi,
I´ve put the next configuration in the Mail Proxy (the attached files / The other sites have the default configuration) and the problem is that the email root@jonander.xyz can´t receive any mail but it can send, the port 25 is open so I think that is a configuration problem in the proxmox server.

Aside from this I don´t know what to put in Smarthost.

 

[aaron]

Well, how did you test the receiving? Connecting directly to the PMG on port 25 and sending emails or just by sending emails from another account?

If it is the latter, you will probably need to adjust the DNS entries, first the MX record is pointing to mail.jonander.xyz. If I connect to port 25 on that, I don't get any connection up an running.

 

[Abrucci]

fyi, you dont have to add entry to the Transports Tab when Default Relay is set

 

[JonAnder]

Well, how did you test the receiving? Connecting directly to the PMG on port 25 and sending emails or just by sending emails from another account?

If it is the latter, you will probably need to adjust the DNS entries, first the MX record is pointing to mail.jonander.xyz. If I connect to port 25 on that, I don't get any connection up an running.

So, what I have to change?

 

[aaron]

So, what I have to change?

You have to make sure that the DNS chain that points to your PMG installation works.
An external mail server, which is about to send an email to your domain, first looks up the MX record.

The MX record usually points to an A record. The A record then points to the actual IP address under which the mail server (PMG in this case) can be reached.

# dig +noall +answer mx jonander.xyz
jonander.xyz.        1761    IN    MX    10 mail.jonander.xyz.

-> MX record points to mail.jonander.xyz

# dig +noall +answer mail.jonander.xyz
mail.jonander.xyz.    1800    IN    A    47.58.90.252

mail.jonander.xyz points to 47.58.90.252

Testing for an open port 25 (smtp) on that IP:

# nc -z 47.58.90.252 25
47-58-90-252.red-acceso.airtel.net [47.58.90.252] 25 (smtp) : Connection timed out

It is not possible to open a connection on that port.

We cannot tell what the actual cause is. It might be a wrong DNS entry, pointing to the wrong IP address. It could be a missing firewall / router config that would forward that port correctly or a combination.