>ok, I read that thread (or most of it anyway) interesting discussion - but
>this isn't the problem I'm having...
>I can't connect to the remote host at all... I tried to connecting to the
host
>with telnet and the connection just times-out (I even logged the packets
and
>didn't get any replys from the remote host) and I've pinged the remote host
>with no response.. so the remote host is down... and I'm not going
through
>any kind of firewall.. as far as I can tell it seems that there's
something
>wrong with my qmail setup.. especially since it's giving the wrong error
>message in the logs...
That's very odd; the qmail error message "Connected... but connection
died" definitely indicates that qmail thought that a connection was opened.
However, my limited testing concurs; that host isn't giving a glimmer of
response.
Just a final check... you are running ping and telnet from the qmail
host, correct? And there is no firewall in front of your qmail host? If
the answer to both is "yes," I'm stumped.
--Greg
