[afnog] mail problem

[Bernard Wanyama]

Hi Mike!

Looks like you do not have TCP/IP 'line of sight' with any of these servers.

>From where I am standing (MTN Uganda - 193.108.254.x)

mail:~ # telnet mail.avsi.org 110
Trying 81.208.64.123...
Connected to mail.avsi.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <2136.1145350427 at avsi.org>
user b
+OK
pass b
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.
mail:~ #

My bet is either a local firewall or your provider's network.

I suggest that you first eliminate the local firewall, do the telnet test
and then move on to testing reacability of the mail servers over your
provider's network.


Kind regards,

Bernard


On Tue, April 18, 2006 8:58 am, Mike Barnard said:
> hi, i seem to be having a strange mail problem. i have a client who i am
> running an "smtp gateway" this system sends his mail for him, but he pops
> from a different mail server.
>
> he pops his mail from italy while i do the smtp for him in uganda. Across
> all other networks, he can pop his mail, but not on mine. i have made sure
> that this system is not in any blacklisting databases, but that would
> really
> affect sending not receiving. my exim conf file is as below
>
> <snip>
>
> domainlist local_domains = @
> domainlist relay_to_domains = avsi.org
> hostlist   relay_from_hosts = 192.168.0.0/24
>
>  </snip>
>
> ive tried to telnet into his mail server but i cannot get far
>
> avsi# telnet mail.avsi.org 110
> Trying 81.208.64.123...
> telnet: connect to address 81.208.64.123: Operation timed out
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
> avsi#
>
> i tried it with all their three mail servers and still got a connection
> time
> out.
>
> to make it even worse, i cannot access his webmail page
> (webmail.avsi.org),
> i get a time out on that as well. the italy office tell me they do not
> block
> anything from anyone at the moment.
>
> anything that i have missed! ive run out of ideas
>
> Mike Kwatampora
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