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Dear Tarau,

I am trying resolving a problem with our local mail @mlpid.gov.ki. We host it locally with our public ip address but the problem we can not receive mails, we can only sent mail but there is a problem in receiving it.

I tested it with http://www.mxtoolbox.com and it gave me 550 connection refused, mentioned about reverse DNS failed!

Is this a real cause of the problem, am I going to ask my isp or problem with my mail software. I am using MDaemon

I believe the problem may be because your mail server is not accepting connections from external hosts on TCP 25?

mlpid.gov.ki. 7200 IN MX 0 ITPCMAIL.mlpid.gov.ki.

ITPCMAIL.mlpid.gov.ki has address 202.6.120.177

Trying 202.6.120.177... Connected to 202.6.120.177. Escape character is '^]'. 550 Connection refused Connection closed by foreign host

That error message is being returned by your mail server on TCP 25 when a remote mail server attempts to connect to yours. Try to make sure that the mail server software is operating properly on the destination machine.

Hope that helps! -- steve