From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 06:18:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D3C16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 06:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-88.apple.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F7B43FA3 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 06:17:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hA7EHxT7020044; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 06:17:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (dpvc-68-161-244-25.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.244.25]) (authenticated bits=0)hA7EHwZq014116; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 06:17:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <2FBE22C7-112D-11D8-AD24-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:17:57 -0500 To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:18:01 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:18:01 -0000 On Nov 6, 2003, at 6:32 PM, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > Jonathan Chen 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