--On 2 November 2010 16:24:39 +0100 Michael Klimczak
<klimczak@???> wrote:
>
> Okay, I managed to nail down the issue. Thanks for confirming that exim
> in it's standard configuration should not be the cause of our problems.
> Doing a normal 'traceroute' I could follow the route from my home
> computer to the mailserver, doing a 'tcptraceroute' on ports 25 and 587
> revealed that they were already cut off halfway through by one of the
> gates of the university.
Well, that's reasonable. Apparently the university has a defacto policy
that you may not establish a mail server on campus. You might want to ask
them to open a port for you. We, for example, would only open port 587
inbound in response to a specific request. Of course, our MSA hosts do use
port 587 inbound.
Of course, we do have 587 outbound open, but not port 25.
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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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