Marc Knoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I have attempted to send a message to someone at fasken.com, but qmail's
> logs revieal a 'Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection."
qmail will keep trying to deliver the message for (default) one week before
returning that error. How long did you wait? How many delivery attempts
for that message were in your logs?
> The strange thing is that I *was* able to telnet their mail server and
> successfully send a message to my intended recipient (confirmed via
> telephone).
I got a dialog going with it as well; although its reponses looked a little
funny, nothing in violation of the relevant RFCs jumped out at me.
> Is there anything I need to check on my end? I tried sending it via
> another mail server local to me, and it too failed.
qmail couldn't even connect; until that happens, nothing else matters.
Perhaps their firewall is sending bare linefeeds in the SMTP conversation?
Charles
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