Postfix setup

[Tom Misilo]

I did some searching on my ISP's website and it seems they block all
requests and when I run nmap on my pc from one at school, it comes up
with

PORT   STATE    SERVICE
25/tcp filtered smtp


>
> > >3. You can connect by name to port 25 from your mail server, but you get
> > > "relaying denied".  This should be fixed by the "mynetworks" line above.
> > >  - you should check that.
> > Works now using mail.misilo in the alpine config, but mail still does
> > not ever get out.
>
> But that's for network connectivity reasons.  Postfix is now accepting mail
> on all its interfaces though.
>
> > >4. You can't telnet to port 25 from remote windows machine.
> > >  - can you ping the server from the windows machine, by name and ip?
> > pinging by name works and so does pinging by ip
>
> So DNS is okay and there's basic routing between the desktop and the mail
> server.  A firewall seems the most likely problem now.  That could be on
> either the server or the windows machine.
>
> > >  - what is is inet_interfaces set to in /etc/postfix/main.cf
> > inet_interfaces = all
> >
> > >  - what is the output of "netstat --listening --tcp"
> > tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*                     LISTEN
> > tcp        0      0 localhost:2207          *:*                     LISTEN
>
> Postfix is listening on all interfaces but packets are getting dropped or
> blocked between your windows machine and your mail server on tcp port 25.
>
> On the server run:
>
>         sudo tcpdump -i ethX port 25
>
> changing ethX to be the interface you expect packets to arrive on (eth0
> most likely?).  With the above running, redo the telnet on the windows
> machine and you should see packets appearing on the tcpdump.  If the
> packets arrive to the server, there is some issue (most obviously a
> firewall) on the server.  If packets don't arrive, they're getting stopped
> before they get to the server -- probably by a firewall on the client.

Okay I ran this and tried connecting to it via telnet from the windows
pc, but no packets appear. tried it about ten times hoping something
would come up :)

I also opened port 25 on the windows firewall and no luck, nor with
turning it completely off.

Also this is the output of iptables --list

root at linus:~# iptables --list
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Tom