RE: [cobalt-users] Sending Mail From Home Through Raq4

["Dean Hall" <dean@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Contacting astrology-online.com (198.78.145.164) 
> Could not connect to astrology-online.com Cause: connection 
> timed out (10060)
> 

Is astrology-online.com the Raq, or is the home system the
RaQ?  What box is Eudora running on?

> So I search the list, and the cobalt site and discover I 
> should put my ip range from home in the relay/domains section 
> of email parameters.  I did this, no luck and the parameters 
> menu never seems to hold it.
> 
> So I edit /etc/mail/access and add my IP range (the first 3 
> numbers, no dot at end) 
> 
> 000.000.00     RELAY
> 
> example above
> 
> Then the makemap hash deal, Then restarted sendmail.
> 
> Tried it again got the exact same message from eudora.  This 
> time I was Tail -f the maillog, and it showed no signs of 
> "hearing" my PC trying to send it mail.  
> 
> Now what?  I have no clue what else to try, suggestions?   
> Thanks guys, always a helpful bunch!

1) your ISP could be blocking port 25 (smtp) from being passed
through to the internet from subscribers, forcing you to use 
their smtp servers.

2) no experience with eudora or it's logging capabilities.

Let's explore both issues. We'll see whether we can get past
your ISP, and we'll remove your email user agent (eudora) 
from the equation by manually walking through the steps of 
sending email.

On your box you need to do a command line telnet or a telnet
where you can control the destination port.  

Here, I have connected to your astrology-online.com and 
attempted to send an email.  Lines that I typed are marked 
by <===.

# telnet astrology-online.com 25      <===
Trying 198.78.145.164...
Connected to astrology-online.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 www.astrology-online.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.10.2/8.10.2; Fri, 17 Aug
2001 17:04:43 -0500
helo tactix.com                  <===
250 astrology-online.com Hello pub.tactix.com [209.162.210.196], pleased
to meet you
MAIL From: <dean@xxxxxxxxxx>     <===
250 2.1.0 <dean@xxxxxxxxxx>... Sender ok
RCPT To: <dean@xxxxxxxxxx>       <===
550 5.7.1 <dean@xxxxxxxxxx>... Relaying denied.  Please check your mail
first.

astrology is blocking my relay, so this is good.
You should be able to get this far from your home system.

If astrology is receiving mail for users, but you can't 
get a 220 message this way, then you are probably
being blocked by your ISP.  You may not see the 3 lines
before the 220 message, depending on your telnet client.

If you got a "relaying denied" then you have more 
configuration work to do on astrology.

Here's a manual session that works, remember, you may not
see the lines that begin "Trying..." and "Connected..." and
"Escape...".  Again, I have marked my typing with <===.

# telnet tactix.com 25        <===
Trying 209.162.210.193...
Connected to gate.tactix.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 tactix.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.4/8.11.4; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:29:55
-0700 (PDT)
helo tactix.com               <===
250 tactix.com Hello Zeus [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], pleased to meet you
mail from: dean@xxxxxxxxxx    <===
250 2.1.0 dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sender ok
rcpt to: dean@xxxxxxxxxx      <===
250 2.1.5 dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Recipient ok
data                          <===
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
testing smtp stuff            <===
.                             <===
250 2.0.0 f7HMUT901794 Message accepted for delivery
quit                          <===
221 2.0.0 tactix.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
  
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Dean Hall at Tactix ReEngineering ( dean@xxxxxxxxxx ) 
503 520-9699  http://www.tactix.com