Yes, when I'm making a telnet connection it is to port 25, thus: telnet serverx.domain.com 25
Crap, I should have mentioned this, but after I make the above connection attempt, I do actually get a connection. I can't believe I didn't explain this. 220 serverx.domain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.9; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:3 1:21 -0500 (CDT) The problem is, as soon as I try to type anything at all, like "helo mydomain.com" it automatically disconnects me, every time. I can't even type a single character, it disconnects. I understand what you're saying about it being something I'm doing, but for the life of me I don't what I'm doing wrong or missing here. You want a bigger kicker, I can telnet to the above server just fine from my desktop on my internal network and get an okay response from it, I just can't do it from any of my servers including the Mail server of course. This whole thing is really getting out of my league and my local help just keeps telling me, "it's your firewall, talk to those guys". Thanks Scott and Travis. Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail not trying secondary mail servers? >Well there is problem number 2. I cannot telnet from my mail server to those >servers. It disconnects immediately. I know, I know, that screams firewall, >but I also cannot telnet from my mail server to *any* outside mail servers, >even ones that I can email just fine. My hands are tied because I don't know >our firewall well enough to question my firewall guys. It's not a firewall issue. If you cannot connect from your IMail server to port 25 on another server, but IMail can send mail there, the problem is with something that you are doing. The remote mailserver cannot distinguish between you doing it and IMail doing it. It's along the same lines of saying that you can connect to a website fine with Netscape but not with IE running on the same server. If that is the case, something probably isn't right with IE. In this case, that would be the way you are trying to connect. You are trying to connect to port 25 (not the default telnet port 23; mailservers rarely have telnet access)? -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers since 2000. Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader in mailserver vulnerability detection. Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
