In the end it seems I'm now able to send e-mail again...
Thanks to Eric for a suggestion "off-list", I'm now sending my LiLux
mails through the Coditel smtp swerver and reassigning the FROM field to
my LiLux adress...
In a first phase, Coditel had blocked this about a month ago (that's
when I started having problems) and after a chat with Thierry I'd
started using Sendar as my smtp swerver...
Now they block "outside" smtp but allow (l)users to reassign the FROM
adress go figure.
Serge
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 15:45, Serge R. Marelli wrote:
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
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