Can't recieve incoming mail
majestickitty opened this issue · 6 comments
I have set everything up seemingly the way it should be, I followed the instructions entirely. When I try to send a message, it works perfectly. However, if I try to receive a message, it doesn't show up. Even using journalctl -xe it doesn't show anything coming in. I have tried all of the troubleshooting suggestions at the end of the README file, and I found no issues. The port forwarding should be working just fine. I can't for the life of me figure out what is going wrong. Could somebody help? Please let me know if I need to include more info, eg. journalctl logs, port forwarding config, etc.
did you solve it?
I havent solved it yet, but I think I figured out the issue. I haven't set up reverse DNS searching with my ISP. Once I do that, it should work.
Funny thing is i'm able to receive emails but unable to send emails to gmail mail accounts but i'm able to receive emails when i send to myself using the email accounts i've set up.
I can't receive incoming mail either, and when I check intoDNS.com it says there is a problem with my MX Records, despite setting it up exactly as shown in Luke's videos.
Ok, the error message was solved by adding a .tld at the end of both ReverseDNS entries. That was one step I missed. However, two other errors appeared afterwards regarding CNAMEs, and how CNAMEs were incompatible with the MX Records. After deleting the two CNAME entries, which I had made according to Luke's instructions on Youtube, I received no further error messages.
Yet the issue still stands. I can send mail, others receive them, but I myself can't receive anything.
@PhoenixBlade24 I had the same issue. I opened and forwarded all the required ports (993 for IMAP and 465 for SMTP), except port 25 (another port for SMTP). When I opened and forwarded Port 25 to my e-mail server, it started to receive email!