it allow me to send out emails?
I send out to smtpout.secureserver.net on port 80 so that makes no sense to me unless the firewall is analyzing what kind of data is going out and not allowing it.
Thanks guys.
Need more details.
What are you trying to accomplish?
If script, post it.
this is just a simple home network/lab test. I’m slowly learning how to use this stuff. I just want to be able to use outlook express to send out emails and for some reason mikrotik is blocking me from being able to send out, even though I can receive perfectly fine.
port 80 is for web traffic. Port 25 is smtp. it’s probably your ISP blocking port 25 outbound to anything other than their own servers.
i know it has nothing to do with my isp because before I put in the mikrotik setup I have been sending emails in the exact same way for years. 
no ideas anybody?
Not without knowing your current firewall settings.
how do I display them on here? They are all default for what mikrotik sets up.
So you aren’t using nat/masquerade?
No firewall rules?
Log into the router, open terminal.
/ip firewall filter print
copy and paste
/ip firewall nat print
copy and paste
[greg@MikroTik] /ip firewall filter> print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
0 X ;;; place hotspot rules here
chain=unused-hs-chain action=passthrough
1 chain=input action=drop dst-port=21 protocol=tcp
2 chain=forward action=accept dst-port=25 protocol=tcp
[greg@MikroTik] /ip firewall> nat print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
0 X ;;; place hotspot rules here
chain=unused-hs-chain action=passthrough
1 ;;; masquerade hotspot network
chain=srcnat action=masquerade src-address=192.168.0.0/24
2 ;;; masquerade hotspot network
chain=srcnat action=masquerade src-address=192.168.0.0/24
[greg@MikroTik] /ip firewall>
Wow these forums are dead/dying. Not much help on here for the new guys. Is there some kind of support I get for the money I paid for this software?
these forums are dead on the weekends. sure, if you paid $45 you can get about 10 minutes of support : ) If you want configuration / helping reading the manual assistance you can pay for a consultant to help you configure it.
are you sitting behind the hotspot?
what happens when you traceroute to your smtp server? does it even get there?
what does ‘/tool e-mail export’ look like ?
if all else fails, run a packet sniff on your external interface and open it with wireshark and see whats wrong. most likely its just invalid data and your smtp server just is blowing you off, but you can’t see that because MT logging for email is horrible.
this makes no freakin sense but its working now and I haven’t done anything other than enable UPnP and restart the server.