Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:12:54AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Rick Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > My mail server is qmail and it plays well. But I can not send any mail to
> > > 371.net which has three mx server and one smtp server. on its website, I
> > > got to know that smtp.371.net is recommended. but I can not connect to
> > > this server by telneting its 25 port. Can anyone give me a hand? Or is
> > > there any other method by which mail servers can communicate with each
> > > other?
> > Is the document on its website intended for the ISP's customers? Probably
> > the mx* hosts are intended to be the MX for the domain, and "smtp.371.net"
> > is there as a smart relay for its customers only, and they have port 25
> > firewalled off from the rest of the net.
> dnsmx 371.net gives mx.371.net, so this one is reachable from outside.
I meant that "smtp.371.net" might be an internal-only mail relay. Any host
named "mx\d" is probably a publically-reachable MX.
Charles
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