Re[2]: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 DNS problem - Sendmail?

[Allan Liska <support@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jeff,

Right, I made the assumption that mail was being served by the RaQ
server.  If that is not the case then you can do a dig at the primary
nameserver see where the MX records are pointing and telnet to that
box on port 25.

Why wouldn't this work if you are behind a firewall?  You still need
to be able to send mail.  in fact, I am on a Windows box behind a
firewall now and it works fine...maybe you need to adjust the rules on
your firewall?

Anyway...this is getting way off the original topic.


Wednesday, January 26, 2000, 10:20:59 PM, you wrote:

JL> Works fine IF the beautytech.com domain receives mail on the machine called 
JL> <www.beautytech.com>.  These days that's not always the case.  For example, 
JL> I'll soon be moving all email for <mailtraqna.com> to a server at my home 
JL> while <www.mailtraqna.com> will continue to be served from a colocation point.

JL> Of course, it won't work if your Windows box is behind a firewall, as my 
JL> desktop machine is.

JL> Jeff

JL> At 10:17 AM 1/26/00  Allan Liska wrote:

>>Skipping even more than that...why not do this:
>>
>>If you are on a windows-type machine, goto start | run and type:
>>
>>                   telnet www.beautytech.com 25
>>
>>Which gives you the following results:
>>
>>Trying 216.205.40.210...
>>Connected to www.beautytech.com.
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>220 www18.clever.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.0/8.9.0; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:09:35
>>-0500 (EST)


Best regards,

allan

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