On 09 May 2006 15:40, glen martin wrote:
> This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or
> whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account
> in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to
> list.gentoo.org changed.
>
> I hadn't posted to this for quite a while until recently. When I did so
> again a few days ago, the message hung up in my outgoing queue and I got
> this message in the log:
>
> May  7 16:09:56 texada postfix/smtp[23864]: 7D46150B55:
> to=<gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>,
> relay=lists.gentoo.org[140.105.134.102], delay=15242, status=deferred
> (host lists.gentoo.org[140.105.134.102] said: 421 4.4.1 collect: read
> timeout on connection from m198-163.dsl.rawbw.com,
> from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (in reply to end of DATA command))

Many MTAs refuse to relay messages from dial-up or DSL connections - and 
rightly so. Just use your ISP's SMTP server as a smarthost.

Uwe

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