On Sat, 2025-09-13 at 13:35 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > I noticed that my postfix has an issue with my laptop since the > middle of this week. Specifically, the connection to the mailserver > times out. However, this connection goes through and gets delivered > from my workstation. Both of them are fully updated with Fedora 42 > (workstation/desktop and a laptop). The main difference between them > is that the laptop is connected to the network by means of WiFi and > the other is connected by means of ethernet (on to the same > university network). > > I was trying to see what the problem was and I tried: > > telnet mailserver portnumber > > on both machines. > > In the case of the laptop, I get: > > Trying IP address... > > (hangs) > > while in the case of the desktop, I get: > > Trying (same) IP address... > Connected to mailserver > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 out-?.mail.domainname ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) > > What could the problem be?
Is the Wi-Fi router something that you can reboot? They do stuff up from time to time. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
