Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:26:26AM -0800, Fred Viles wrote:
>
>> On 22 Nov 2005 at 9:35, Rob Brenart wrote about
>> | 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.
>>
>
> Local packet filtering rules on the relay box?
>
> Cheers
>
> MBM
>
> Yep... thank goodness for tech support on that box...
Now, who was getting past my firewall from Hong Kong and how?!
I can now hit the box with telnet hostname 587... now to see if I can
get exim going :)
Thanks to everyone for all the help in this thread
