Re: sending mail problems...

Avleen Vig <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:43:40 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.vexim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:13:24PM +0000, Andreas Westvik wrote:
>    Yeah, so you can actually see that on the little logs I brought along?
>    Im not on canal digital, but another provider in the middle of norway.
>    Is there any easy ways to see if it blocking port 25? Other than trying
>    to set up a exim4 configuration ;)

Sure :-)
from a command line, try:
  telnet mail.silverwraith.com 25

You SHOULD see a banner from Exim.
If you get a timeout, or an error about not being able to connect, they
your ISP is filtering port 25.

The easiest thing to do is set up an SMTP smarthost on a commercial
connection, or pipe out outbound SMTP connection through gmail (which is
quite common).