Mail server not working with Postfix Dovecot

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 07 December 2015 05:29:15 iceblink wrote:

> On 2015-12-07 08:42, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > Where is this machine - is it in your home or hosted somewhere? If
> > in your home, that is not ideal. Many (most?) ISPs block common
> > ports for incoming SMTP traffic for home customers, and a lot of
> > mail servers out there will not accept mail from a ISP home consumer
> > IP range. You *will* have problems getting your mail delivered. I
> > suspect this is what you are doing, and that is part of why you are
> > having problems.
>
> This is probably different for each country. Here in the Netherlands
> most ISP's will not block any port (at least not until they find that
> your PC is sending spam or has an open relay mail server). The biggest
> challenge in my country is getting a fixed IP address, or failing
> that: keeping your DNS up to date with the changing IP addresses.
>
> Best regards,
> Patrick

I had that problem after my router failed, and found that my ISP issues 
an address via dhcp based on the mac address of the router requesting an 
address.

Cloning the mac address of the failed router into the new one put me back 
on the address registered at namecheap, so my web page, on this machine, 
is back in business.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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