On 14 Sep 2007, at 20:59, Monahon, Peter B. wrote:
However, since I'm inside an aggressive, undocumented firewall, I'm not sure if my failures are my own settings, or someone actively blocking something, like port 25, hence my request for samples of working ones from anybody else. If I make mine look exactly like someone else's working SMTP, say, even using GMail, then I have a golden example to start from!
I'm afraid I can't help with more working SMTP settings, but if it's any help I have a public SMTP server you can try to connect to manually. If it works, you'll know it's not a firewall issue.
It runs on ports 25 and 26. To test, run a command prompt and type
telnet gtwm.co.uk 25
or
telnet gtwm.co.uk 26
You should get a response something like
Trying 62.73.174.217... Connected to gtwm.co.uk. Escape character is '^]'. 220 eul0001189.eu.verio.net ESMTP Postfix
You won't be able to actually send a mail, because the server requires you to have an account to do so, so just type
quit
and the response will be
221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host.
Regards
Oliver
oliver@gtwm.co.uk / 0845 456 1810 / 07814 828608 The Old Bank, 4 Ravenhill Rd, Swansea SA5 5AW, UK
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