On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:17:59AM -0500, Mike Nielsen wrote: > Haviing some trouble with my mail server. Sendmail 8.11 > > > > There are some sites that I cannot send mail to, the connection always times > out. If from my linux firewall I telnet to the given smtp server port 25 it > won't connect. However if I telnet from a machine behind the firewall (The > natted boxes get the same IP as the router) I connect just fine. It isn't > every smtp host just a few that I have run accross. It dosn't seem to be any > particular type of remote host either, some sendmail, some exchange. > > I can't seem to figure out what is going on. > > I have disabled the firewall and get the same result. > > Anyone ever run accross this type of thing before? No. I am using the "SMART_HOST" feature of sendmail to send the mail to the ISP upstream and let him worry about the delivery :) florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect"