Noel is the man!!!

[Amarish Khopkar <am...@yahoo.com>]

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" <no...@devtech.com> 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
> 
> 
>
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