I'm trying to track down the problem I'm having with sending mail from my home computer through SBC DSL, to my non-SBC-hosted mail server. For some reason, I can receive email, but I can't send it. My web hoster has allowed me to use port 26 as well, and it works from my email program. I can send mail to myserver:26, but not myserver:25.
Can anyone give me some suggestions on finding out what's causing this? My first thought is that it's my hoster. But my hoster, of course, gives me a nice, bland, corporate poker face and says it's not them, and that it could be my ISP. I've tried connecting to the mail server via telnet from my own computer at home and from the server itself. ==============From my home computer I get: localhost ~ $ telnet -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org Trying 147.202.33.153... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused localhost ~ $ telnet -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org:25 telnet: could not resolve mail.hardboot.org:25/telnet: Temporary failure in name resolution localhost ~ $ telnet -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org:26 telnet: could not resolve mail.hardboot.org:26/telnet: Name or service not known ==============From my hosting account I get: -bash-2.05b$ telnet -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org Trying 147.202.33.153... telnet: connect to address 147.202.33.153: Connection refused -bash-2.05b$ telnet -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org:25 telnet: mail.hardboot.org:25: Name or service not known mail.hardboot.org:25: Unknown host -bash-2.05b$ telnet -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org:26 telnet: mail.hardboot.org:26: Name or service not known mail.hardboot.org:26: Unknown host ============== >From a third-party server I only have ssh available, and it gives me this: u35610167:~ > ssh -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mail.hardboot.org's password: Permission denied, please try again. u35610167:~ > ssh -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org:25 ssh: mail.hardboot.org:25: Name or service not known u35610167:~ > ssh -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.hardboot.org:26 ssh: mail.hardboot.org:26: Name or service not known Where do I go from here to isolate this problem? I really don't put it past SBC to do something this stupid, but it seems more likely to be a problem with my hoster. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
