On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 09:58:03PM -0400,
Jeff Fiegel <jeff@???> is thought to have said:
>
> >
> >Wrong way around. That'll tell you why you might be refusing connections
> >for someone else's IP.
> >
> >TO answer the original poster's question: If they're refusing your
> >connection (as opposed to giving you a SMTP error on connection -- try to
> >deliver a message in verbose mode) then one of two things is happening:
> >either the MTA on that server is no longer listening on port 25 (ie it
> >crashed) or they are TCP wrappering connections from your server (try
> >connecting to port 25 on that server from someplace else to verify).
>
> Okay... do you know which of the exim -?? would do that?
>
> thank you for your help
exim -v -M message-id
to deliver a message in verbose mode. If that says "connection refused"
then from some other system besides your mail server do
telnet host.domain.com 25
where host.domain.com is the mail server that's refusing connections from
your mail server. If it's still refusing connections then their MTA has
crashed and there's nothing you can do. If it accepts a connection when
you do the telnet then you'll have to contact the site's postmaster to
find out why you are being blocked.
The most likely occurence is that their mail software crashed.
Tabor
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Tabor J. Wells twells@???
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