Re: [expert] mail server problems

2001-10-23 Thread Craig Sprout

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Daniel Anderson wrote:

Dan--

What does your fetchmail log say?  Simply connection refused?  Can you
telnet to port 110 to talk directly to the pop server?  What email client
are you using on the Windows side?

Sorry, I have more questions than answers.  I have heard news that certain
ISP's are going to allow only certain pop clients (i.e. LookOut, and its
variants) to access their services.

 Hi all,

I'd like to get some opinions on this problem before I contact the
 isp. I've been running fetchmail to get my mail every four hours for
 several months now,with no problems until oct 8,when the mail
 server,postoffice3.bellatlantic.net ,stopped accepting my connections. I
 am unable to connect with any mail program on the machine. I was able to
 connect one time with Netscape from the other machine on the network,the
 next connection was refused. I booted this machine into windows and have
 no problem connecting at any time. I installed Mandrake 8.0 on another
 machine and was able to connect one time only with a dialup connection
 only ,not connected to my network. I have 3 machine on the network
 including the firewall. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Any
 opinions will be appreciated.

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Re: [expert] mail server problems

2001-10-23 Thread Mike Rambo

Patricia Ballad wrote:
 
 I've had a similar problem with my ISP (ATT @Home) refusing connections from my 
linux box.  Solution:  I put together a bare-bones system w/ old parts I had lying 
around, loaded Win95 and a proxy server.  Now the ISP is happy (it's getting 
connections from a windows box), I'm happy (my linux box connects to the 'net again), 
and all those guys out there floating Code Red  Co. are happily requesting 'cmd.exe' 
from my linux firewall that sits behind the windows proxy.  I call it The Tao of 
Relation to One's ISP.
 
 Good luck.
 

FWIW -

You may not have had to run the windows proxy. I don't have att@home
myself but some of the people in our local Linux Users Group do. Here is
part of a thread discussing this topic recently. It all appears to
center around the host name sent to att@home when the IP address is
obtained dynamically - they refuse to lease unless it's right.


Adam McDougall wrote:

I use isc-dhcp client and I have to put my given computer name in
etc/dhclient.conf because @home's dhcp server bases identity off of that
instead of the ethernet address.  Substitute your network interface for
ed0.  My installation technicion said the IP should remain the
same unless they need to replace a piece of equipment I forgot the name
of.

interface ed0 {
send host-name C144-A;
}

 Adam


 Jeremiah Korreck wrote:

  Does anyone have any experience with setting up redhat with att@home,
  I'm running version 7.1 with a dual boot to win2k.
  Jeremiah Korreck
 
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 On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Daniel Anderson wrote:
 
 Dan--
 
 What does your fetchmail log say?  Simply connection refused?  Can you
 telnet to port 110 to talk directly to the pop server?  What email client
 are you using on the Windows side?
 
 Sorry, I have more questions than answers.  I have heard news that certain
 ISP's are going to allow only certain pop clients (i.e. LookOut, and its
 variants) to access their services.
 
  Hi all,
 
 I'd like to get some opinions on this problem before I contact the
  isp. I've been running fetchmail to get my mail every four hours for
  several months now,with no problems until oct 8,when the mail
  server,postoffice3.bellatlantic.net ,stopped accepting my connections. I
  am unable to connect with any mail program on the machine. I was able to
  connect one time with Netscape from the other machine on the network,the
  next connection was refused. I booted this machine into windows and have
  no problem connecting at any time. I installed Mandrake 8.0 on another
  machine and was able to connect one time only with a dialup connection
  only ,not connected to my network. I have 3 machine on the network
  including the firewall. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Any
  opinions will be appreciated.
 
 +---+
 | Craig Sprout  |  Send lawyers, guns and money|
 | Billings, MT  |  to get me out of this.  Quick!  |
 | http://www.mtsprouts.net  |  --Warren Zevon   |
 +---+
 
   
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 Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

-- 
Mike Rambo
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[expert] mail server problems

2001-10-23 Thread Daniel Anderson

Hi all,

   I'd like to get some opinions on this problem before I contact the 
isp. I've been running fetchmail to get my mail every four hours for 
several months now,with no problems until oct 8,when the mail 
server,postoffice3.bellatlantic.net ,stopped accepting my connections. I 
am unable to connect with any mail program on the machine. I was able to 
connect one time with Netscape from the other machine on the network,the 
next connection was refused. I booted this machine into windows and have 
no problem connecting at any time. I installed Mandrake 8.0 on another 
machine and was able to connect one time only with a dialup connection 
only ,not connected to my network. I have 3 machine on the network 
including the firewall. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Any 
opinions will be appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Dan




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