Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Jun 8 05:18:56 CDT 2006
Hi Borge First, port 80 won't help. It's for web access. Second, try to telnet your ISP directly. It must work for anything else to work. Fire up a dos box and enter this command: C:\>telnet dommail.onthenet.com.au 25 That should clear the box and return a message similar to this from the mail server: 220 dommail.onthenet.com.au ESMTP Mirapoint 3.5.7-GR; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:57:21 +1000 (EST) Now, type QUIT to disconnect and receive the closing message from the mail server: QUIT 221 dommail.onthenet.com.au closing connection If you receive anything else than code 220 and 221 something is wrong. If so, try the same with smtp server of the local ISP. It is quite common that for dynamic connections like yours port 25 is limited to connect to the smtp server of the ISP only. However, unless "everything" is blocked (except port 80 for web browsing), you may be able to connect to GMail on the secure port 465: Popcorn will show everything in the log file, like: 12:11:15 CONNECT : Looking up host name smtp.gmail.com... 12:11:15 CONNECT : Host name smtp.gmail.com found 12:11:15 CONNECT : Connecting to host smtp.gmail.com [64.233.183.109 - 465]... 12:11:15 SSLCONNECT: Connected to host smtp.gmail.com [64.233.183.109 - 465] 12:11:15 SMTP REPLY: 220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP m16sm1429274nfc 12:11:15 SMTP SEND : EHLO gustav 12:11:15 SMTP REPLY: 250-mx.gmail.com at your service, [213.150.48.58] 12:11:15 SMTP REPLY: 250-SIZE 20971520 12:11:15 SMTP REPLY: 250-8BITMIME 12:11:15 SMTP REPLY: 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 12:11:15 SMTP REPLY: 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 12:11:15 SMTP SEND : AUTH PLAIN <stripped code> 12:11:16 SMTP REPLY: 235 2.7.0 Accepted /gustav >>> pcs at azizaz.com 08-06-2006 11:48 >>> Gustav, I've reset my Outlook Express to use my australian ISP smtp server relayed... Port 80 doesn't work - with port 25 and 127.0.0.1 the email gets sent from Outlook Express - but not very far! So what - or where! - do you think is the problem area here - how to get the email out onto the internet? Is it with my local setup or with the ISP ? I don't even have a contact number for the ISP here in Shanghai- and even if I did I wouldn't get far due to the language barrier here... Would a bit of popcorn help to give answers here? regards borge