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What ports to forward to server for mail to function correctly?

I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion form lion and am experiencing a MAIL issue (FAILURE)


I beleive I need to restablish or open ports on my router but the common ones don't seem to be doing the trick for users using Outlook. I have the Apple document that talks about the most common used ports but my Netgear router limits me to 20 so I need to narrow down the selction a bit.


Any assistance would be appreciated.


Right now, these are the ports being forwarded: (and yes, many can be eliminated)


#Service NameExternal Start PortExternal End PortInternal Start PortInternal End PortInternal IP address
1HTTP80808080192.168.15.101
2VPN-PPTP1723172317231723192.168.15.101
3NetMeeting/H.3231720172017201720192.168.15.101
4VNC5900590059005900192.168.15.101
5mail110110110110192.168.15.101
6mail225252525192.168.15.101
7mail3143143143143192.168.15.101
8mail4993993993993192.168.15.101
9Kerberos88888888192.168.15.101
10Password106106106106192.168.15.101
11SMB139139139139192.168.15.101
12SSL443443443443192.168.15.101
13Mail587587587587192.168.15.101
14email rules8089808980898089192.168.15.101
15FTP20212021192.168.15.101
16SSH22222222192.168.15.101
17DNS53535353192.168.15.101
18RPC111111111111192.168.15.101
19SFTP115115115115192.168.15.101
20NTP123123123123192.168.15.101

Posted on Feb 13, 2013 2:24 PM

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Feb 13, 2013 4:59 PM in response to MplsEE08

Thank you Taylor for your response! The article you are speaking of is the article I referenced and is a great reference.


Like you, I keep thinking that I have set everything correctly to allow a Windows Outlook client to authenticate and send/receive mail from the Mountain Lion server, but it just is working since I upgraded to Mountain Lion.



The error I keep getting is a 504 5. 5. 2 <EI052014L33R1> error.


Any additional assistance is greatly appreciated.


Thank you!

Feb 13, 2013 7:37 PM in response to JT Harvey Jr.

Regarding Outlook. Can it receive, send or neither?


If the problem is sending, two things to look at.


- You are configured for port 587 which is TLS.

In outlook, select TLS (not SSL)

I prefer to enable port 465 which is SSL, this plays well with outlook.

To do so, you need to edit

/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/master.cf

Look for these lines

#465      inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd
#  -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
#  -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
#  -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
#  -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING

Uncomment them all. DO NOT remove the space before the -o (its required)

Then issue

sudo postfix reload


Make sure 465 is open in your router

Retry Outlook


587 = TLS

465 = SSL



- Look at your smtp logs, do you see helo errors when you try to send from Outlook?

If so, do this (good idea to do this for ANY installation)

edit

/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/main.cf

Find

smtpd_helo_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname reject_invalid_helo_hostname

Change to:

smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworkseject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname reject_invalid_helo_hostname

Then issue

sudo postfix reload



If this doesn't solve the issue.

Please post whether this is a receiving or sending problem.

If receiving, post output of mailaccess.log(imap) log when you attempt to pickup mail

If sending, post output of your mail.log(smtp) when you try to send.


Jeff

Jul 16, 2013 12:10 PM in response to JT Harvey Jr.

Hi JT,


I suppose you already know it's best not to open ports that you don't need. A TCPdump might help you to see what's being called on...


http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3994


Also you said router so I assume you are connecting to a WAN using a common Broadband provider. Don't rule out their making changes on their end so you can't send. It does happen, not likely but it does happen. They could have made some changes during the time you were adding your upgrade OS.


You might also try little snitch to assist in gleaning some additional information from the connections your computer tries to make. I use it often when trying to sort out what's making network calls.


Good luck.


Jon

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