I'm not sure what it was but it's now connecting at lightning speed. If someone from GoDaddy fixed it somehow - thank you!
telnet smtp.secureserver.net 25 Trying 216.69.141.71... Connected to smtp.secureserver.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 osplibsmtp01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net CMGW FEwiuMkolg2W1 ESMTP server ready On Wednesday, 14/05/2025 at 12:17 Dave Brockman via mailop wrote: On 5/14/2025 12:01 PM, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: > On 2025-05-14 at 10:50:52 UTC-0400 (Wed, 14 May 2025 10:50:52 -0400) > Scott Q. via mailop > is rumored to have said: > >> openssl s_client -connect smtp.secureserver.net:25 -starttls smtp >> CONNECTED(00000004) >> Didn't find STARTTLS in server response, trying anyway... > > That says something significant. Your mail server wouldn't happen to be > living behind a Cisco firewall, would it? > > If s_client says that, then it has successfully connected, sent a EHLO > command, and got something in response. > > If it isn't seeing STARTTLS then either STARTTLS wasn't offered *OR* > some middlebox interfering with SMTP removed it. In my quick testing, > the machines answering behind smtp.secureserver.net all offer STARTTLS. This is not Cisco specific. Several flavors of firewalls force clear-text for inspection purposes these days. But I think you are onto something there. With Gratitude, Dave Brockman Senior Network Engineer Gig City Cloud, LLC _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
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