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* Alexander Goeres <agoeres@???> [20031202 13:58]: wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I wonder if someone might be able to help me with a problem of sending mail
> from my mailserver.
> I'm running a mailserver with exim 3.36 (i KNOW it's old and deprecated, but I
> didn't have time to convert and won't have for some time..). Some of our
> customers reported, that mail they sent to one address was constantly
> delayed.
> The relevant Log-enties are:
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> >2003-12-02 11:18:37 1AR6W8-00025t-00 == recipient@??? T=remote_smtp
> >defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host
> >and remote.mailser.ver connection timed out
>
> I tried to telnet to the remote.maiser.ver form my mailserver and it didn't
> work. Telnetting from at home was ok. I was told that sending mail via a
> different provider worked.
Why don't you use it?
> Obviously the remote.mailser.ver doesn't accept port 25 from my mailserver.
Looks like.
> But this remote.mailser.ver is the only one to behave like this, nearly all
> other mail goes out as it should. Telnetting from my mailserver to a
> different remote.mail.server was perfect.
Well, I believe there is no defined 'standard' for mail servers to behave.
Admins decide how they should behave ;)
Some mail servers do not even conform to protocol standards!
[snip]
> I found some strange entry in the output during this debugging run:
> >Connecting to remote.mailser.ver [62.128.193.29.25] ...
> It looks as if it should be an IP-address with a port number, but I thought a
> colon was needed to separate these..
63$ telnet 62.128.193.29 25
Trying 62.128.193.29...
Connected to 62.128.193.29.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 james.thinkmail.com ESMTP Sendmail Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:48:05 GMT
That mail server seems to respond (to mine). I can't guess why it doesn't
for you.
cheers
- wash
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