[afnog] mail problem

[Martin Hannigan]

At 02:19 AM 4/19/2006, Noah Sematimba wrote:
>On Wednesday 19 April 2006 08:41, Mike Barnard wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Brian. been at it almost the whole of last night, bringing down rule
> > of the routers and trying but still no avail. if it was a routing problem i
> > should not be able to send  mail to them (**ideally). but the mails sent
> > from me and all others on this network get to them (**that i know for
> > sure). i have talked to italy and they insist that there are no
> > restrictions whatsoever on that network.
>
>
>ok. So if I am getting this right, "telnet 81.208.64.123 25" works since
>you're able to send them e-mail, however you're not able to pop mail from
>their network. This clearly points to the fact that they must be having
>restrictions that prevent your network from connecting to port 110 on their
>server.


Which would be tested by 'telnet 81.208.64.123 110'. IIRC, it will answer
with the POP server name/version and you can manually enter USER and PASS
to visually confirm (insecurely of course).

-M<







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