Noel, You're right. When I try to do:
telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp, I'm getting a Connection refused as well, so it must be the firewall. Thanks a lot, Amarish --- "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am getting the same error message when trying to > send > > email to email servers other than yahoo, and I > have > > tried sending multiple times to yahoo and the > others > > at different times with the same result > > Firewall? I understand that some ISPs, in an effort > to stop Internet worms, > have started to block outgoing SMTP connections > except to their own SMTP > servers. What happens if you: > > telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp > > from the same system as James would try? You would > want to receive: > > 220 YSmtp mta351.mail.scd.yahoo.com ESMTP service > ready > quit > 221 mta351.mail.scd.yahoo.com > > The 220 response came from yahoo, then I typed quit > and yahoo closed the > connection after issuing the 221 response. > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
