Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

["Duncan McDonald" <duncan_mcdonald@ieee.org>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Ianson" <alianson@shaw.ca>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails


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> It was a common practice in my area that ISP's would block ports like 25 
> so
> you couldn't run servers on a home account, or to prevent spam from
> originating on their IP block. I don't think that is the case now but that 
> is
> something you may want to check. Telneting into your mail server on port 
> 25
> may give you clues as to what is happening when an outside server tries to
> connect to your host.

I get this when I try to telnet to port 25 remotely:

~$ telnet encomium.com.au 25
220 host.encomium.com.au ESMTP Exim 4.50 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:14:53 +1100

   -Duncan