Mack Earnhardt wrote:
> Tim Wunder wrote:
>
>> Mack Earnhardt wrote:
>>
>>> I've just implemented a local mailserver and I'm testing it. I can't
>>> send to it from moz/20010806 on a WinNT box. The server is postfix
>>> on a Debian box. I can send from Moz to localhost on the Debian box
>>> and also from NS4.72 on the WinNT box without any problems. The mail
>>> log on the server indicates a timeout after 5 minutes, and moz just
>>> sits there saying it's 'connecting'.
>>>
>>> wtf?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Mack
>>>
>>
>> Are you using an IP address as the SMTP server, or a server name? If a
>> name, does the NT box have a way to resolve it to the correct server?
>>
>> HTH,
>> Tim
>>
> It's resolving just fine. Postfix logs the connection, but then it
> times out. Note that the successful send from NS4.72 was from the very
> same WinNT box.
>
> More info: I first tried this with exim with the same results. I
> uninstalled exim and installed postfix, but no joy.
>
Search bugzilla. I did a cursory search in Mail/News for SMTP and it
came up with 30 bugs. Perhaps one of them applies. This link may get you
there:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&product=MailNews&short_desc=smtp&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=smtp&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27
HTH,
Tim
