From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33745 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: smtp authentication (sendmail relay) Date: 17 Dec 2000 15:27:42 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200012170829.eBH8T2Z30966@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169792 26685 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC50D049D for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 18:28:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB29912; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:28:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:27:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08099 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:27:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.13.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 18FD0D049D for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 18:27:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 18239 invoked by uid 50); 17 Dec 2000 23:27:42 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "17 Dec 2000 15:03:02 -0800" Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33745 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33745 Harry Putnam writes: > bsd > telnet smtp.newsguy.com 25 > Trying 209.155.56.71... > telnet: connect to address 209.155.56.71: Connection refused > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host > Script done on Sun Dec 17 14:44:35 2000 > I notice a lengthy pause between typing the telnet command to connect to > smtp server and the error message being returned. > Possibly something to do with my ISP DNS machine?. But seemsno way to > connect to smtp server. Perhaps your ISP is one of the ones that blocks port 25 connections to any systems other than their local customer relay servers to try to cut down on spam from their customers? -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)