Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue

[strider c. <st...@cc...>]

>Ok, that means cscsend can't establish a TCP connection to your SMTP server
>on port 25... To be honest, it's also a "bug" in cscsend in that we don't do
>good error checking on stuff like that...
>
>But the quick fix is for you to make sure that your SMTP server settings are
>correct in your account configuration....
>
>You might try telnetting to port 25 of your SMTP server, to make sure you
>can connect that way...
>
>telnet smtp.someisp.com 25
>
>In future versions of CSCMail I will be doing better checking in routines
>like this one, so that a nice friendly error message pops up saying
>something like "Unable to connect to SMTP server, check settings and try
>again"  but for now it is a bit less user friendly... sorry

No prob. I'm sure that's the problem... when I was using an ssh tunnel
before (which worked for POP) it didn't work, and didn't say it couldn't be
reached, so I assumed that wasn't the problem without really checking. I
should've been more thorough.

Speaking of tunneling, it'd be really great if we could choose the port that
SMTP travels over as well as POP. I don't like using root to set up my SSH
tunnel, but I have to as long as smtp will only work on port 25. I'm sure I
could hack it, but for the long term could that be added as a feature?

- John

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