On 22 Nov 2005 at 16:31, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote about
"Re: [exim] smarthost relay problems":
| 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?
Packet filtering that makes the remote system accept the connection?
I don't see how. A transparent proxy could do it, I suppose. Other
possibilities are that it's cockpit error, or the relay box is on a
subnet that the smarthost treats differently.
- Fred
