Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Klaus <klaus.doering999@gmail.com> writes:

> The server (mail.messagingengine.com) doesn't respond to ping nor to an
> attempt at connecting through port 25 right now (20/5/2014, 13:30 GMT)
>
> $ swaks -s mail.messagingengine.com -q FIRST-HELO
> === Trying mail.messagingengine.com:25...
> ^C (manually aborted after a minute or so)
>
> $ ping mail.messagingengine.com
> PING mail.messagingengine.com (66.111.4.51) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ^C
> --- mail.messagingengine.com ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4030ms

,----
|   echo -e "`date` \n`ping -c1 mail.messagingengine.com`"
| Wed May 21 22:36:46 EDT 2014 
| PING mail.messagingengine.com (66.111.4.52) 56(84) bytes of data.
| 64 bytes from mail.messagingengine.com (66.111.4.52): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=43.8 ms
| 
| --- mail.messagingengine.com ping statistics ---
| 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
| rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 43.848/43.848/43.848/0.000 ms
`----

One of the first things I did was ping the host to make sure on that
end.  

I've never had any trouble pinging it and send mail thru it on a daily
basis from a different host ( running sendmail ).

I'm on a direcpath internet connection that is in no way related to
fastmail but I do have a fastmail email account and the login creds that
goes with it.