fc3, sendmail, dovecot: cannot receive from outside

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 03:22 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 09.03.2005 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 2:46:
> 
> > Is rivers-bend.com your domain? Then it has a valid MX enty in DNS,
> > pointing to mail.rivers-bend.com, which is IP mail.rivers-bend.com. Is
> > that the public IP address of your FC3 host? I doubt as the Sendmail on
> > that machines says to be 8.12.11 and FC3 ships with Sendmail 8.13.1.
> > 
> > Alexander
> 
> Sorry, the IP of mail.rivers-bend.com is of course no name, but from dig
> 
> mail.rivers-bend.com.   5224    IN      A       209.205.179.141
> 
> Alexander

What about your firewall/router/NAT device?  Are you passing the port 25
packets to the correct internal address at the firewall?

Bob...