Re: ISP blocking port 25, how to send mail from Iseries

Well, I know when I want to support it, I want as much info
as possible.  :)  

I emailed you privatley on this, but in case anyone else
has similar problems, here is what I told Art.

With MAILROUTER set and FIREWALL set to *NO, then the mail
router isn't being used.  This means that the SMTP server
will try and send mail directly to the recipient.

I'm pretty sure your ISP blocks port 25 this way, so normal
consumers can't set up mail servers.  (corp accts are
different).

But, if you use their mail router, then everything should
work fine.  So if you set FIREWALL to *YES, stop and
restart your SMTP server, things should work fine again as
you'll be using their specified mail router.

This may or may not be the case, but it is what I'm
assuming, and why you're seeing port 25 blocked.  It's not
blocked on the mail router you "thought" you were using,
it's blocked from your connection to the rest of the
internet (which you didn't realize you were doing?)

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:40:01 -0400
 "Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brad:
> 
> I used your MAILTOOL to test and it works fine too.
>  That's a mighty
> fine debug file you write out.  Everything I needed to
> see was there.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:20:21 -0400, Art Tostaine, Jr.
> <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My Mail router is mail1.optonline.net, firewall *NO.
> > 
> > Art
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:02:51 -0400, Carl Galgano
> > <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Art, how are your mail router and firewall settings
> set for CHGSMTPA?
> > >
> > > Carl J. Galgano
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> > > AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications
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> 
> 
> 
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> Art Tostaine (GMAIL)
> CCA, Inc.
> Jackson, NJ 08527
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Bradley V. Stone
BVS.Tools
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