D'OH! My bad. I don't think it was this way a year or so ago... we have to go through the state's main network center. But, before we could telnet to our mail server from outside. Now they appear to have reconfigured things so that our MX record points to their gateway... and then they forward to us.
mssc.state.ms.us preference = 20, mail exchanger = mx1.state.ms.us mssc.state.ms.us preference = 10, mail exchanger = mailr.state.ms.us By telnet'ing there I got through. But, it was the gateway server I was on. I was able to send an email from the command line from outside to my internal address. It's all good. Thanks, Barry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barry Patterson Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:35 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: SMTP Testing Now I'm totally confused... I tried telnet'ing from outside to our SMTP server(on port 25) and I got a connection refused. I thought if this was the case you could not receive email from outside??? Am I wrong? I just sent an email from outside and it came right through. I can telnet from to our internal address just fine (NAT is in use) And sent email from the command line to my outside email address just fine. Is it normal for the TO: field to be blank when doing this? Barry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barry Patterson Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: SMTP Testing Hmm, I wonder if this is where the email problems lies at then. There have been email problems between us and another agency. Thanks Barry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:54 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: SMTP Testing All issued commands must yield a response. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:52 AM Subject: SMTP Testing > I am helping someone test SMTP through telnetting into port 25. > > Should any SMTP server respond to each command? > I do a 'mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[ENTER]' > and after a couple of seconds it respnds OK, blah.. > > Then I do 'rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[ENTER]' > and it sits there and acts stupid... no response after that. > I have tried using a valid username in the domain and also tried sending to > an outside address (myself) > > Although after I left the telnet window up for about 2 minutes the window > just closed... > > When I telnet to our SMTP server I get responses very quick on each command. > > Barry > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
