Re: [cobalt-users] Settings for email relaying

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Low wrote:

> Actually, I should have mentioned that I had tried POP before SMTP.  How
> would I find out whether Earthlink/Mindspring allow Port 25 traffic off
> their networks bound to external servers?

Try it and see if he can connect.

Or...

Dialed in through earthlink, from a dos-box, try the following command:

telnet mail.yourserver.com 25

(where "mail.yourserver.com" is the name or IP# of your RaQ) and see if
you get a connection from the SMTP daemon.  If you do, type "quit" (it
may not be echoed; I forget) to close the connection before you close
telnet.  If it works, he can use your server with POP before SMTP; if it
doesn't connect, he can't.

Jeff
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