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

[Serge Marelli]

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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