Re: SMTP Connections
On Thu, 3 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:
> are you behind a firewall?
Yes, but I don't think it blocks outgoing 25/tcp connects.
> try to telnet to port 25 of mail.madduck.net - if you get a refusal,
> then you have a problem on your side and i think you might have a
> firewall that blocks outgoing 25 connects (which is not uncommon).
Trying 130.58.82.235...
Connected to mail.madduck.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 diamond.madduck.net ESMTP
MAIL FROM:<alice@wonderland.com>
250 Ok
> > On what basis could a mail server decide which hosts it is going to allow
> > to connect to it?
>
> ip addresses mostly...
Could you expand on this? How would a mail server decide which IP
addresses to block? Why would it suddenly decide that it doesn't like
mine? :)
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David Steinberg
steinber@interchange.ubc.ca
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