[PLUG] Reaching port 25

[Bill Barry]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:25:49AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >   That's part of the problem. On the host with postfix installed (and on
> > which I do my work), I cannot telnet to port 25 at my external IP address.
> > From the other host (the one on which I'm writing this), I can. Anyone on
> > the outside can, too.
> 
>   Let me amend this: I now cannot telnet to port 25 from this networked
> host.
> 
>   Firewall problem?
> 

Can you telnet to port 25 on some other machine with a mail server?
telnet  mail.aracnet.com 25 
would be a good test.

Is there an smtp server running on this external machine you are
trying to access?

Bill Barry