Re: [SLE] I think my port 25 might be closed

From: Trey Sizemore (trey_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 01/31/05

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:34:11 -0500

    On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:42 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
    > How can I tell if port 25 on my machine is blocked? I can send e-mail
    > from using Evolution and kmail without incident, but sylpheed-claws
    > gives me an error connecting to the smtp server. I've verified that the
    > smtp server info is correct. It does not require authorization. Using
    > telnet to try to connect to the port yields:
    >
    > linux:/home/trey/sylpheed-claws # telnet localhost 25
    > Trying 127.0.0.1...
    > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
    > Trying ::1...
    > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
    >
    > I don't have a firewall enabled. Where in suse do I check this out?
    >
    > Thanks for any ideas.
    >
    >
    Actually, it looks OK. My mistake:

    trey@salamander:~/Desktop> telnet mail.alltel.net 25
    Trying 166.102.165.30...
    Connected to mail.alltel.net.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 ispmxmta06-srv.alltel.net ESMTP server ready Mon, 31 Jan 2005
    16:29:06 -0600
    quit
    221 ispmxmta06-srv.alltel.net ESMTP server closing connection
    Connection closed by foreign host. 

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