Anymore help out there

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Thu Nov 6 18:25:40 PST 2003


chip.wiegand at simrad.com writes:

>  > 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.

	Bingo.  Same response here, and I know I'm being blocked.
	Time to talk to the ISP ....


			Robert Huff







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