NO!!! I HAVE SBC!!! AND IT HANGS! I guess I will just have to gateway through my isp. Thanks for the help.
On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 4/25/06 8:47 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > no, I have a gentoo box and a windows box behind a router, and I don't > > want anything to do with my ISP's mail. I just mentioned the router > > and windows box and all that good stuff to see if 192.168.1.0/24 was > > right, because I don't really know how CIDR works. I just fired up > > mutt from my gentoo box, tried to send an email, and postfix gave me a > > bunch of connection timed out to smtp.freeshell.org crap. I can > > recieve email just fine, I'll email [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > > I log in and go into mutt and voila it is there, but I can't send > > anything. > > > Okay, sorry, just trying to get the picture in my head. So you send a mail > from the gentoo box TO the same gentoo box, what happens? In other > words,you have a nonroot user "bob" and as root on that box you say "mail -s > test bob" and send it that way, what happens? Bear in mind, your isp might > block outgoing port 25 traffic except to it's servers. If that's the case, > you'll have to put their smtp server in as your gateway. > > If you can send email from root on box to nonroot on box, make another > client (windows or not) use that box for smtp and send email to nonroot > users on box. If that works, we know smtp on that box is listening on > localhost and on other addresses, and is willing to accept email. > > Then try telnet jolet.net 25 > If you hang, your isp is blocking that traffic. Nothing you can do except > bitch and make them your gateway. My co-worker had the same problem with > sbc. > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Erik -- [email protected] mailing list
