Re: [LIH] Trouble in opening outgoing ports on a mail server selectively
Ajitabh Pandey <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.user-groups.linux.india.help |
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2009/12/7 Arun Khan <knura-/[email protected]>: > On Monday 07 Dec 2009, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > >> # Following two ports are required for exim. >> >> -A OUTPUT -m state --state NEW -p udp -m udp --dport 25 -j >> LOG-AND-ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -m state --state NEW -p udp -m udp --dport >> 587 -j >> LOG-AND-ACCEPT >> > > IMO, the protocol shoud be tcp and not udp for SMTP connections. > Perhaps that is what is blocking exim on outgoing connections. Ha Ha, thanks a lot for pointing out that copy/paste error. To save some typing effort I must have copied the previous line meant for port 53 queries and didn't change them completely. Yeah I can confirm it is working now. Regards. -- Ajitabh Pandey http://ajitabhpandey.info/ | http://unixclinic.net/ | http://buddingthoughts.info ICQ - 150615062 Registered Linux User - 240748 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev