From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 1 06:44:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15245 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 06:44:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15237 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 06:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from diabolique.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.216]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3535; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:44:40 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981101100710.Y28493@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 15:48:31 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: e-mail error Cc: lista usa , lista usa , Gregorio Faraldo Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31-Oct-98 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 31 October 1998 at 20:25:35 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> On 31-Oct-98 Gregorio Faraldo wrote: >>> I try also to do a telnet to mail.hotmail.com 25 and i get a message that >> Bigfoot and hotmail obviously disallow telnet access by means of a >> firewall... > > That would be rather defeating the purpose if they blocked port 25 > (SMTP). If they accept mail, they accept telnet on smtp, because it's > the same thing. Anyway, before stating this, you could try it: Does the term D'oh! ring any bells? Djeez, the work indeeds clouds one's mind from time to time... I entirely missed the specified port number... [mental note: read mail twice or thrice before replying] Pardon my ignorance, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message