Quoting Jarrod Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Nope you should use telnet as Mark has explained... basically you are trying > to establish a connection to Telus' mail server. Telling it port 25 is > telling the mail server that you are trying to connect to the SMTP service. > If you can successfully connect then you know that your machine can talk to > the mail server and your problem lies elsewhere. This is a good first step, > you can configure Kmail till you are blue in the face but if you have > firewall software or something preventing your machine from getting to their > mail server it will not work even if the settings are correct. > > Jarrod > > > _______________________________________________ Hello Jarod, I successfully did the following: telnet smtp.telusplanet.net 25 and got: Trying 199.185.220.249... Connected to smtp.telusplanet.net 220 priv-edtnes 51.telusplanet.net ESUTP server (IntermailVM.6.01.04 201-2131-118-1104-20050224) Ready Mon, 2 May 2005 12:42:48 -600 Connection closed by foreign host. I presume the connection was closed due to too long an inactivity, because I tried it again and typed some text which was not a telnet command and had a really tough time hanging up. I eventually did hang up by trying variations on the escape character until I found one that worked. Does that provide any clues as to what is happening? Thank you again Jarrod and Mark. Regards, Michael Walters _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
