On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Jeff Fiegel wrote:
>
> >
> >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?
Nothing of exim- will do that, you have to physically go somewhere
else, and then try to connect (using telnet would be simplest) to port
25 of that server.
Optionally, you can just post what server is refusing connections to
the list here, and any of us can try.
The most likely case, however, of "connection refused" is that there is
nothing listening on port 25 on that server - EG there *IS NO* mail
server running there (maybe there never was, or as suggested, maybe it
crashed) - theres really nothing you can do about that. If you know its
supposed to be running a mail server (EG, its accepted mail before),
and you have some other way (such as by telephone) to contact the admin
of that server, you might wish to do so and let them know their
mailserver has crashed.
>
> thank you for your help
>
>
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