Re: [Exim] Exim Configuration - Connection Timed Out

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: Brian Auty
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim Configuration - Connection Timed Out
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Brian Auty wrote:

> For instance, I can email myself or anyone on the sympatico mail server,
> but I can't send to Netscape mail.
> The error message I'm getting is mailin-04.mx.netscape.net
> [205.188.158.57]: Connection timed out.
> It seems to send it , but I guess waiting for the remote SMTP to reply -
> it times out. How do I change this to the proper settings? When I look
> in the main log, only the local messages and the ones to other sympatico
> users are going through and marked as completed - the rest time out.


Looks like sympatico has blocked outbound port 25 for its customers.
Set your exim to smarthost through sympatico's mailserver - see
http://www.hserus.net/exim.html

    -srs