Mark A couple of things to try before making any radical changes to your network.
1. You say you POP off a server at UWA. It looks like you have your "Reply to" address set as the UWA address. It may be that the Telstra SMTP server won't route your mail because of this. Try setting your reply to address to your Bigpond address and see if that helps. 2. Check that you can connect to the SMTP server. You can do this by using Terminal and typing in "telnet mail-hub.bigpond.net.au 25" - without the quotes obviously. If you connect try typing in HELP or HELO to see if you get a response. Any response will be very basic so don't expect much but if you get one then your computer can connect to the server and there is some other issue probably unrelated to your home network setup. Type in QUIT to disconnect. Hope this helps. Cheers Greg > From: Mark Secker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 09:24:54 +0800 > To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Airport, bigpond ADSL and SMTP e-mail relaying > > > a quick (but verbose) musing on setting up an ADSL+Airport combo and > a request for assistance from those who may have been through this: > > Yesterday my flatmate had Bigpond ADSL put on at home and I've been > trying to configure my mail client to use bigponds SMTP server > mail-hub.bigpond.net.au to send out e-mail. What I get is a "server > not responding" error from Eudora. Setting up the same details in > Entourage gives the same sort of error. > > All other TCP/IP and UDP applications work fine (web > browsing/chat/video streaming etc) > > The eudora progress window shows a dns resolved IP address for the > SMTP server that Network utilities pings with low ping time, and the > IP number resolves back to the correct identical name. > > > I POP off my UWA account and simply want to send mail using Bigponds > SMTP server rather than setting up a bigpond e-mail account just to > send mail (or use VPN to send via my uwa mailhost - tried VPN first > could not get it to work - separate issue I think). > > > After trying different permutations of the smtp host name ( .com, > .com.au, .net, mail. etc) I got the same "host not responding" > message (when using the .au extension) or a "host not found" for > other permutations. > > I though they may require authentification and/or smtp to be sent to > a non standard port number but both the setup literature and the > online help make no mention of such a requirement and simply show a > standard SMTP setup. > Checking out my flatmates' computers (windows XP) their mail clients > (using bigpond e-mail accounts) are setup using the default/standard > SMTP server settings and work. > > The only permutation that _MAY_ affect things is that, because I > don't want to run a ethernet cable halfway round the house, I have an > Airport base station plugged in to the ADSL router/hub. > It is setup to bridge & route and handles distribution of DHCP > assigned IP's on the wireless side of the network to my 2 airport > enabled macs (so both of them come up with 10.0.0.x IP addresses) the > base station receives it's own DHCP IP# from the ADSL for talking on > the ethernet side of the network. Maybe Bigpond doesn't like traffic > routed of a privet network using its smtp severs? though this would > be strange because any business using Bigpond broadband would want to > do _exactly_ that for may reasons (including security and the ability > to use more IP#) > > Tonight I will try removing the base station and run via an ethernet > cable and if that works then turn off routing (private networking) on > the base station -will the base station then appear like a "dumb > hub" to the ADSL router and only DHCP assign an IP# to my Macs or > will the basestation still need to get it's own IP#? > > > > -- > ~ > Mark Secker Computer Support Officer > ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G > ~ > "Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible." > - Miguel de Unamuno > "It takes an idiot to do cool things.... that's why it's cool" > - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) > > <http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm> (sometimes works) > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >
