On 22 Nov 2005 at 9:35, Rob Brenart wrote about
"Re: [exim] smarthost relay problems":
| Dave Lugo wrote:
| > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Rob Brenart wrote:
| >
| >>> |...
| >>>
| >> Yeah, we opened port 587 yesterday, and I got access to a relayed box...
| >> from which I can do exactly what I want to... but from my SBC connection
| >> I still can't get through to 25 or 587, which means either my internal
| >> setup or SBC is blocking 587... and I'm about 99% positive it's not
| >> anything going on inside my walls.
| >
| > Find and download 'lft' (layer four traceroute), and you'll be able
| > to determine what hop is dropping the port 587 packets.
| >
| Sometimes I love debian... apt-get install lft... :)
| But I don't quite understand the output... it all looks good to me then
| says failure at the end... (pasted at the bottom)
What it means is that, contrary to what you say above, your smarthost
is *not* accepting connections on port 587. At least not from the
Internet at large. I don't know why it appears to you that they are
when you try from the "relayed box", but it is what it is.
- Fred
