On Thu, 3 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > are you behind a firewall? Yes, but I don't think it blocks outgoing 25/tcp connects.
> try to telnet to port 25 of mail.madduck.net - if you get a refusal, > then you have a problem on your side and i think you might have a > firewall that blocks outgoing 25 connects (which is not uncommon). Trying 130.58.82.235... Connected to mail.madduck.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 diamond.madduck.net ESMTP MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 Ok > > On what basis could a mail server decide which hosts it is going to allow > > to connect to it? > > ip addresses mostly... Could you expand on this? How would a mail server decide which IP addresses to block? Why would it suddenly decide that it doesn't like mine? :) -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]