Need some SMTP troubleshooting help - Please!.

KevinO kevin at kevino.org
Wed Mar 12 21:35:12 MST 2008


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.
> 
$ dig yahoo.com MX

What does that tell you?

$ telnet f.mx.mail.yahoo.com 25

What happens now?
-- 
KevinO


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