[Lilux-help] e-mail problems using Coditel-cable ISP

Hi, Thanks ${DEITY} there is webmail. Background information : I've been having problems sending e-mails for the past 4 days. I'm using Coditel cable as my ISP, so far it was working OK, almost no problem. Symptoms : For the past 4 weeks there have been increasing problems, first my mails seemed to be rejected by Sendar for some obscure "IP forwarding" question and Thierry helped me with that. I had to fix my parameters in Ximian Evolution and Kmail (I'm using both, yes, different e-mail adresses, different "identities", different repositories etc...) The last time I was able to send myil from my normal account was on Sunday night, since then all I get is some error message saying "unable to connect to sendar port 25". I _am_ able to retrieve my mails from Sendar though and I do receive e-mails on each of my e-mail adresses. I called Thierry and we checked a few things and it doesn't seem to come from Sendar, so I called the Coditel (un)help-line to inquire. As usual they at first considered I might have problems with Outlook or perhaps a trojan on my system, I explained that neither Kmail, nor Evolution, nor Linux are all that suscpetible to windows virii (they were actually understanding about that) and said there have been "several" reports of users having trouble sending e-mail, they were surprised though that I _am_ able to send e-mail with my Coditel account (surprise, this works) Since I'm not all too confident they'll find a solution fast enough for my (and Lilux's) needs I want to ask you guys 1) are there other people here who'd be using Coditel cable ISP ? do you have similar problems? 2) where (and how) can I find/activate the logs so I can actually check what's happening when my system's trying to connect to Sendar's port 25? 3) Sendar responds to ping, but I can't ssh to Sendar either, might be similar filtering from Coditel, how can I investigate this? 4) any other suggestions Any help will be appreciated, printed if possible, applied to find the reason, the bill will be sent to Coditel and funding given to LiLux ;)) thanks Serge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Software patents kill technical innovation" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux : http://www.linux.lu/ Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ over 200,000 votes & 2000 firms against software patents http://noepatents.org/