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I am porting a PHP site from an Apache server too a NGINX server. First I will get rid of apache to avoid any problems:

# service httpd stop
# yum erase httpd*

Now I am going to install php-fpm so I can extend php functions through NGINX:

# yum install php-fpm

Let's make sure php-fpm is running under the right user:

# ps aux | grep apache
apache    1658  0.0  0.5 222552  5316 ?        S    20:41   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
apache    1659  0.0  1.0 227268 10536 ?        S    20:41   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
apache    1660  0.0  1.0 227268 10420 ?        S    20:41   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
apache    1661  0.0  1.0 227268 10420 ?        S    20:41   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
apache    1662  0.0  0.5 222552  5316 ?        S    20:41   0:00 php-fpm: pool www

Nope... so what if:

# vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# service php-fpm restart
# ps aux | grep nginx   
nginx     2379  0.0  0.3 222264  3504 ?        S    21:47   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
nginx     2380  0.0  0.3 222264  3504 ?        S    21:47   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
nginx     2381  0.0  0.3 222264  3504 ?        S    21:47   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
nginx     2382  0.0  0.3 222264  3504 ?        S    21:47   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
nginx     2383  0.0  0.3 222264  3508 ?        S    21:47   0:00 php-fpm: pool www

Fantastic... Let's see what happens when I invoke a mail() call from my app:

postfix/pickup[2305]: 6B9B6223BD: uid=497 from=<nginx>
postfix/cleanup[2393]: 6B9B6223BD: message-id=<20130318014941.6B9B6223BD@penny.localdomain>
postfix/qmgr[2306]: 6B9B6223BD: from=<nginx@penny.localdomain>, size=367, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
postfix/smtp[2396]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[173.194.75.26]:25: Connection timed out
postfix/smtp[2396]: connect to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[173.194.65.26]:25: Connection timed out
postfix/smtp[2396]: connect to alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[173.194.70.27]:25: Connection timed out
postfix/smtp[2396]: connect to alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[173.194.69.27]:25: Connection timed out
postfix/smtp[2396]: connect to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[173.194.71.26]:25: Connection timed out
postfix/smtp[2396]: 6B9B6223BD: to=<myemail@gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=151, delays=0.03/0.01/150/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[173.194.71.26]:25: Connection timed out)

So can my box actually figure out how to reach gmail?

# host -t mx gmail.com
gmail.com mail is handled by 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com mail is handled by 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com mail is handled by 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com mail is handled by 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com mail is handled by 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

It sure can.. hummm..

Let me note this is a guest Centos 6.3 VM running locally.

The problem is that I am not able to deliver mail using the current configuration.

I'm not sure what to do next at this point, any guidance would be appreciated.

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Connect the machine to the Internet. If you think it is connected, you need to check again, because it clearly is having issues here. – Michael Hampton Mar 18 at 2:05
@MichaelHampton Haha I wish that was it. – Dan Kanze Mar 18 at 2:06
You DID check again, right? – Michael Hampton Mar 18 at 2:14
@MichaelHampton I triple checked. #curl google.com #ping google.com I even #yum erase php* #yum install php php-fpm and went through the bases one more time. There must be more to this. – Dan Kanze Mar 18 at 2:35
WHat about telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25? – Josh Mar 18 at 13:59
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It seems as though my ISP was blocking outbound traffic on port 25. I was able to confirm this by comparing a connection to:

telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25

on my local box and a remote box outside of the ISP. The remote box was able to make a connection.

At least I think that's whats going on.

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Yeah that's what I suspected also... Many ISPs do this in order to limit SPAM. Ask if they have an MTA you can use and configure postfix to use a relayhost – Josh Mar 19 at 13:26

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