[NTLUG:Discuss] Email Issues

[Michael Patrick]

At 18:32 2001-05-17 -0500, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I haven't tried telnetting into port 25 yet from off the @home network yet.
>I do have a static IP for it though. I tried addressing my full domain in
>the email address, when that failed I even tried my static IP. That didn't
>work either.
>

I just tried telnetting into one of my @Home machines and it works fine on 
port 25.  Addressing to user at your.full.home.com or user at 1.2.3.4 (which 
should technically be user@[1.2.3.4]  I think) may or may not be 
successful, depending on your mail server config (does it answer for that 
domain?) and the config of the remote server (will it try a direct connect 
if the MX lookup fails?).  A very basic telnet test would be:

------------------------------------ begin telnet test 
-------------------------------------------------------
[root at firewall firewall]# telnet 192.168.0.10 25
Trying 192.168.0.10...
Connected to 192.168.0.10.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.mydomain.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.1600 
ready at  Thu, 17 May 2001 19:22:22 -0500
helo me
250 mail.mydomain.com Hello [192.168.0.1]
mail from:joe at here.com
250 2.1.0 joe at here.com....Sender OK
rcpt to:admin at mail.mydomain.com
250 2.1.5 admin at mail.mydomain.com
data
354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
this is a test
.
250 2.6.0 <MAIL-Aibz4DrGzkUJ00000001 at mail.mydomain.com > Queued mail for 
delivery
quit
221 2.0.0 mail.mydomain.com Service closing transmission channel
Connection closed by foreign host.
--------------------------------- end telnet test 
-----------------------------------------------------------

after which I had a file in my drop directory representing the e-mail.

>I haven't seen anywhere in the @Home TOS saying I cannot receive email to
>my individual machine. There is even a webpage explaining how to set up a
>home network.
>
>(mildly miffed by @Home)
>Will

"You may not run a server in connection with the @Home residential service, 
nor may you provide network services to others via the @Home residential 
service. " -- http://www.home.com/support/aup/

(not saying I agree with it (after all ... isn't ICQ a server? ...  just 
that it is there)

Michael

p.s. for those who noticed :  yes it is a Windows 2000 machine (reading the 
sendmail book now to set up mail on my linux machine)