Re: (PM) [OT] SMTP

Richard Morrell (portmaster@handel.ednet.co.uk)
Thu, 27 May 1999 17:29:14 +0100 (GMT)

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Scott Rothgaber wrote:

> I have several ISDN (Netgear RH348) and FR (OpenROUTE GT60) customers
> who have trouble sending mail. *Everything* else works fine except
> SMTP. On the RH348's, SMTP won't even bring the link up.

I've never used either of the above products, but I know how NAT works.
If you are using NAT then you'll probably have a static porthandler for
SMTP for *incoming* SMTP mail (i.e. anything the router sees on port 25
gets sent to the mail server on the LAN). Make sure that this is only
being applied to incoming traffic (from internet->lan) and not the other
way round.

Have you tried telneting to an internet mailhost on port 25 from one of
the client machines on the LAN?

Regards,

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Richard Morrell                                           richard@ednet.co.uk
System Administrator - edNET: Internet Access for Edinburgh - www.ednet.co.uk

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