Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

[Charles Swiger]

On Nov 6, 2003, at 6:32 PM, chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:
> Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz> wrote on 11/06/2003 03:23:43 PM:
>> The timeouts look suspicious. Is your upstream blocking outgoing SMTP
>> connections (perhaps in an attempt to stop spam)? A quick way to check
>> would be to:
>>
>>> telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp
>>
>> No response would mean that someone is blocking you out (either
>> upstream or the receivers).
>
> Tried that, it just sits on
>
> simradusa# telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp
> Trying 216.136.129.5...
>
> and never connects.

OK, so you can be reasonably sure your ISP is blocking port 25.  You 
will probably need to configure your mail server to relay via your ISPs 
SMTP server instead-- change the SMART_HOST definition in 
/etc/mail/freebsd.mc and do a "make restart" in /etc/mail, and see 
whether that helps...

-- 
-Chuck