On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:01:53 -0800, Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try doing your telnet without the colon. The colon is being treated as part > of the hostname. Use a space instad of the colon.
Oh, okay. Thank you for the clear up. > You also do not need any > username or password for authentication with SMTP, so you can skip the -l > and the related username. For example: *sheepish grin* I should've known that. > If this is a shared hosting account, your host is being pretty cool to open > SMTP on port 26 for you. I just did a telnet mail.hardboot.org on port 25 > and 26, and got a SMTP banner on both no problem. I do not use SBC DSL, so > I don't know if they are filtering port 25 like some other access > providers. But, that's what I suspect given your description and that I am > on a network that is not filtered and can get to both port 25 and port 26. Yeah, sure enough. Using the right way of telnetting, I get the same results. I dug through SBC's site and found a page that says they now block port 25. This is but the latest gripe I have with the company that... Never mind. This isn't the place to bitch about SBC. Thanks for the help Mike. It was exactly what I needed. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
