On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 21:28 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > The email is not being delivered, > 1) I tried sending to a yahoo account I could verify and it did not > arrive, spam filter or no. > 2) My mail server believes it can not open a connection. > 3) I can not seem to get a telnet connection. I have tried 'telnet > mail.yahoo.com 25' and 'telnet yahoo.com 25' from every ISP I can find > (COX, QWEST, TWTC, etc.) but it just times out. Same for AOL, and other > major providers. No luck their unless some one has a better way to do > it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of > Craig White > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:34 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Need some SMTP troubleshooting help - Please!. > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 19:23 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > > Ok I have a problem in that I am (still) unable to send anything to > > Yahoo, or any domain who's email is hosted by Yahoo. I don't get a > > NDR, it is as if I simply can not connect and I get nothing in my > > logs! I believe it is connection oriented because three boxes (Two > > exchange domains and one sendmail) with three external IP's have one > > common point and that is one border router with one T1 connection. > > But I can not get any response out of Yahoo and I can not give any > > details because I have never had to trouble shoot down to this level > before. > > > > Any suggestions on how to figure out what the *&!@$#! is going on with > > > my SMTP connections to Yahoo? > ---- > #1 get a mail account on yahoo so you can send e-mail to yourself and > check it to see if it's delivered...they're free > > #2 I suggested that you try an SMTP connection via telnet so you can > visually monitor what is being said...did you do that? > > #3 Is it possible that your ip address(es) are listed in some DNSBL? > Have you checked? > > #4 Is it possible that the e-mail is delivered to a 'spam' directory > instead of people's INBOX? ---- host -t mx yahoo.com yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 f.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 g.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 a.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 b.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 c.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 d.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 e.mx.mail.yahoo.com. $ telnet f.mx.mail.yahoo.com 25 Trying 209.191.88.247... Connected to f.mx.mail.yahoo.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mta341.mail.mud.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready QUIT 221 mta341.mail.mud.yahoo.com Connection closed by foreign host. took 10 seconds Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss