From: MacShane, Tracy (Tracy.MacshaneAirservicesAustralia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 20:51:09 CDT

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Duchovni [mailto:Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com]
> Sent: Friday, 28 September 2007 10:30 PM
> To: MacShane, Tracy
> Cc: postfix-userspostfix.org
> Subject: Re: Mail traffic to/from specific host issues - probably OT
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:39:59PM +1000, MacShane, Tracy wrote:
>
> >
> > The problems I was experiencing with attempting to connect to them
was
> > by doing test telnetting to port 25 of their server - which
constantly
> > timed out.
>
> This test is misguided, servers that send mail don't
> necessarily also receive mail.
>

Yes, indeed. I was at the "clutching at straws" stage with trying to
elicit something meaningful from the issues we were having. However,
since the server shows up in their MX record, I thought it was safe to
assume it should accept mail as well.

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