Keeba, I am not sure if this is a problem with icedove, exim, your firewall or something else. Try to telnet into the exim machine with: telnet <exim machine domain name or IP address> 25 You may also try other ports such as: telnet <exim machine domain name or IP address> 587 Make sure that exim is listening to the ports that you are using. You should have this line (or something similar) in etc/exim/exim4u_local.conf.inc: daemon_smtp_ports = 25 : 587 If that does not work then you should check your firewall settings on your server and make sure that you have opened up ports for smtp (25 and 587 for example). I would disable the firewall for testing just to rule that out as the problem. If you can successfully telnet into your server and exim replies then everything on your server is probably working fine. You may also verify that exim is running locally by sending a mail message from the command line with exim on the machine where you have exim running as follows (substitute a valid local email address for user(a)domain.tld): echo "Subject: Command Line Test From Exim" | exim user(a)domain.tld Check your exim logs to troubleshoot and resolve your problem. FYI, Gordon kebba.foon(a)qcell.gm wrote:

Hi After days of checking and cross checking, i still cant send emails with my new setup. i have not setup webmail on my server yet. i can connect and download my emails from my mail server but can't send emails am using icedove client. the error i get always is: 'Sending message failed. The message could not be send because connecting to SMTP server <myserver> failed. The server may be unavailable or refusing connections. Any idea what am doing wrong.

Kebba

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