On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:35, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Ron McKeating wrote:
> > Hi all, in line with what is accepted as good practise nowadays we are
> > trying to move to a situation where all our users use authenticated
> > smtp. We are having problems with a user on AOL who seem to grab all the
> > port 25 traffic, such that any email he sends comes from their server,
> > even though he has our server configured in his client. We have tried
> > using other ports but no joy, has anybody found a way round this.
>
> AOL doesnt block or intercept port 587
>
> In fact they strongly recommend that all providers providing ASMTP also
> provide port 587 access
OK thanks for that all, we got the user to use port 587 and he got the
following error
The connection to the server has failed. Account:
'staff-mailin.lboro.ac.uk', Server: 'staff-mailout.lboro.ac.uk',
Protocol: SMTP, Port: 587, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10060, Error
Number: 0x800CCC0E
So I tried doing it locally here on campus and got the same error, the
log entry says
2004-09-21 15:57:12 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error
(input sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from
H=[131.231.83.115]
2004-09-21 15:57:12 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error
(input sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from
H=[131.231.83.115]
This is a bog standard OE client on XP set to use smtp authentication
and ssl. It works fine if I use port 25.
Is there something broken with OE that it barfs when you try to use
other ports ?
Ron
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Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
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