On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, The Philosopher wrote:
> Some more info I forgot (don't know if it makes any difference): my local user
> is "john", remote user is called "jfjellst"
>
> On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> > you mean "can not" right?
> > Are you online, when you try to send the mails via maildirsmtp?
> > What happens if you simply try a
> > $ telnet mail.bayarea.net smtp
> > in parallel to the above command? Do you get a connect?
>
> Yes, I mean can not. I'm online when I try the maildirsmtp command.
> I just tried telnet mail.bayarea.net smtp, and I did get connect, BUT it got
> hung
>
> $telnet mail.bayarea.net
> Trying 205.219.84.13...
> Connected to mail.bayarea.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 postman.bayarea.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 10:58:40 -0700
>(PDT)
>
> It hangs here, and won't go anywhere. Is that the problem?
>
You do realise that you won't get a prompt? Have you tried using SMTP commands
from there? From your post, it looks as if the connection to the remote server
is working fine. It hasn't hung, its waiting for info from your end.
Cheers,
--
Gordon Smith, MCP, TCP
Network Administrator
Horticultural Automation Ltd.
