Cannot send email out

[uxbod]

Have you tried the manual telnet to see if you can actually send email out ?

[clarky2k3]

I tried telnet mail.google.com 25 and no luck.

[uxbod]

Try mine office.splatnix.net ... If that fails then I would check your firewall logs.

[clarky2k3]

Yep that worked, I have sent a helo and I got a helo HOSTNAME back

[uxbod]

sent you a PM

[clarky2k3]

sent a PM back mate.

[uxbod]

I can see your connection which is presented as www.yourdomain and then the connection is immediately dropped after the HELO command. I would do two things 1) Get your DNS changed as I mentioned in a previous post as more MTAs will reject your emails 2) Check your firewall as it may be terminating connections early.

[clarky2k3]

Any guides about changing the DNS as I am useless at this. Also I dont know if it is a problem but we use an internal domain as coqueths.internal but use coqueths.org as a email address and I was wondering if I have all the settings correct?

[uxbod]

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
dig yourdomain mx
dig yourdomain any
host `hostname` <- note backticks and not singles quotes

obviously replace yourdomain with the correct one

[clarky2k3]

I have just SSH into my server and looked at the /etc/resolv.conf and it says

search coqueths.internal
nameserver 192.168.8.8
nameserver 192.168.8.1

This are two internal DNS servers, is this correct?