Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

[Jonathan Chen]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:32:31PM -0800, chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:

[...]
> > 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).
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > -- 
> > Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
> 
> Tried that, it just sits on 
> 
> simradusa# telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp
> Trying 216.136.129.5...

I'd talk to your ISP and see if they're doing anything strange with
outgoing SMTP connections. If you've got a firewall set up, I'd check
the rules on that as well.

I don't think you're on a blacklist, 'cos if that were the case, you'd
usually get a:

    550 You're on a blacklist, yadda, yadda.

response instead.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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