Hi Torry, On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Torry Crass wrote:
> Sorry to be back here with this since I was truly hoping it would be > resolved by now since it's yet weeks later and still a problem but I > thought I might be able to use another "spot". > > Here's where the issue stands: > > Certain systems still are not able to get mail to my server. The initial > errors that they were getting have been something like this: ... > the error "did" change to this: > > ## Deferred: Connection refused by mail.pleiadesdesign.com. ## > > Now, I can say with extreme certainty that I am in "no way" blocking mail or > connections and even have dropped my trousers on this one to ensure that I'm > not blocking anything and I don't even get so much as an attempted > connection to my system by any of the systems having this problem meaning > the traffic isn't even making it to my server. What I suspect (which I have > for a bit but am getting closer to being able to prove this beyond a doubt) > is that there are a select few routing systems on the net which for some > reason are not properly routing traffic in my direction like they should be. ... > What I need, if someone would be so kind (Maybe Ted perhaps if you still > have those subnets which appeared blocked) is for someone to toss > traceroutes from their direction at my server and then me send traceroutes > back at it and see where things are stopping. [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)$ telnet mail.pleiadesdesign.com 25 Trying 69.30.204.75... Connected to mail.pleiadesdesign.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.pleiadesdesign.com ESMTP Exim 4.61 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:22:32 -0500 This is from 81.107.45.145. Where are you sending from? Perhaps your client-side ISP is blocking outbound port 25? Cheers, Chris. -- _____ __ _ \ __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson <0000 at qwirx.com> - Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Ruby/Perl/SQL Developer | \ _/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU : free your mind & your software | -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
