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mucasgracias
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April 9, 2022
Question

Fortimail Connection Refused

  • April 9, 2022
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I create 2 fortimails with server mode, and I use 1 dns server which contains 2 dns for each of those fortimails. I have configured the mx record, A record and reverse for each dns. however, I still can't send emails between fortimails. it always shows a log saying "connection refused" by the destination server, I'm trying to understand the log, it seems the relay ip address is pointing to the ip dns server and not to the fortimail ip address. did I miss something in my configuration?connection refused.PNG

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Contributor III
April 13, 2022

Hello mucasgracias, 

 

Thank you for using the Community Forum. I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible. 

 

Thanks, 

  Fortinet Community Team 

 
jpretli2
Staff
Staff
April 22, 2022

Hi mucasgracias,

I'm sorry that your setup doesn't work as expected.
With the given information it is not possible to identify the reason for your problem.

Maybe it is one of these things...
- the domains are not correctly configured on the devices
- the access control policies deny the communication
- a greylisting problem occurs
- a tcp-port problem exists (one node uses SMTP-SSL, the other does not)
- or something completely different
 
without knowing what is configured and deployed it's hard to recommend anything
A diagram, IP plan etc. would help to understand your setup better.

Thanks, Jochen
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