SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread New Old Stk
For some unknown reason my mail client cannot connect to newly built FreeBSD mail server to send emails - connection refused. Originally I was intending to build secure connection using SASL2 and TLS/SSL but like I said I experience difficulties connecting to SMTP server. My observations: 1.

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
New Old Stk wrote: For some unknown reason my mail client cannot connect to newly built FreeBSD mail server to send emails - connection refused. Originally I was intending to build secure connection using SASL2 and TLS/SSL but like I said I experience difficulties connecting to SMTP server.

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread New Old Stk
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List grkni...@scent-team.com wrote: New Old Stk wrote: For some unknown reason my mail client cannot connect to newly built FreeBSD mail server to send emails - connection refused. Originally I was intending to build secure connection

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
New Old Stk wrote: Sorry Brian, i didn't post the full command I was testing the connection with. Yes, it had -starttls among other things and it did work fine. I was able to connect, AUTH PLAIN generated string (below) and get 235 2.0.0 Authentication successful: #perl

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread New Old Stk
I tried both Thunderbird and Outlook 2007. SMTP port in both was set to 25. I experimented with all combinations of SSL/TLS settings available in TB and Outlook as well. Thunderbird though displayed the following message (TLS/25): Sending of message failed. An error occured sending mail: Unable

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread Noel Jones
New Old Stk wrote: I tried both Thunderbird and Outlook 2007. SMTP port in both was set to 25. I experimented with all combinations of SSL/TLS settings available in TB and Outlook as well. Thunderbird though displayed the following message (TLS/25): Sending of message failed. An error

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread New Old Stk
Noel, connecting to server remotely didn't work. I wonder what's the reason as no ports seem to be blocked. g2$ openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect one.mailexpeditor.com:25 CONNECTED(0003) 157:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:601: I

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:25:43PM +0100, New Old Stk wrote: Noel, connecting to server remotely didn't work. I wonder what's the reason as no ports seem to be blocked. g2$ openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect one.mailexpeditor.com:25 CONNECTED(0003) 157:error:140770FC:SSL

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread New Old Stk
Guys thanks a lot for helping out with my problem. I just tried sending mail from friend's mail server (SBS 2003) and same problem occured. Looks like Cisco box in our office messing up. Appreciate all the input and many many thanks! George On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Victor Duchovni

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread New Old Stk
Looks like I spoke to early about tricky Cisco router. Just had our modem/router equipment replaced, hoping it would fix the problem but to no avail! I give up. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:03 PM, New Old Stk newold...@googlemail.comwrote: Guys thanks a lot for helping out with my problem. I just

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Jul 8, 2009, at 2:16 PM, New Old Stk wrote: Looks like I spoke to early about tricky Cisco router. Just had our modem/router equipment replaced, hoping it would fix the problem but to no avail! I give up. in the cisco box , did you remove any fixup smtp protocols / ports ? On Wed,

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Marcus
On 7/8/2009 2:16 PM, New Old Stk wrote: Looks like I spoke to early about tricky Cisco router. Just had our modem/router equipment replaced, hoping it would fix the problem but to no avail! I give up. Replaced... with another Cisco? If so, try to disable smtp_fixup on it... -- Best

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread Noel Jones
New Old Stk wrote: Looks like I spoke to early about tricky Cisco router. Just had our modem/router equipment replaced, hoping it would fix the problem but to no avail! I give up. On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:25:43PM +0100, New Old Stk wrote: Noel, connecting to server

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread New Old Stk
Noel Server is real. It does look like problem at my end however I have replaced modem+router (DrayTek + Cisco ASA) with generic Zoom ADSL modem and still cannot connect. I will keep investigating the issue so thank you all for input. George On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Noel Jones

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread Noel Jones
OK, I give on the top-posting. Turn off your antivirus for testing, or try a different computer. -- Noel Jones New Old Stk wrote: Noel Server is real. It does look like problem at my end however I have replaced modem+router (DrayTek + Cisco ASA) with generic Zoom ADSL modem and still