Re: [Exim] Connection Refused

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Thanks for your help



At 10:02 PM 4/9/00 -0400, Dave C. wrote:


>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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