Subj : Problems with netmail
To   : Night Owl
From : Sniper
Date : Sat Sep 11 2004 05:56 am

  Re: Problems with TELGATE
  By: Night Owl to Night Owl on Sat Sep 11 2004 02:22 am

 >  I'm getting a large amount of errors when I'm sending netmail, sometimes it
 > works, sometimes it doesn't
 > The errors I'm getting are:
 > 
 > 0000 !SEND ERROR -103 (corrupt message header ID:SMB ) reading message heade
 > #0
 > 1196 !SOCKET INACTIVE
 > 
 > I had it working at one point, and it stopped working again -- that one did
 > have something to do with the DNS in the mail server configuration -- I'm
 > starting to think that my ISP (Time Warner Road Runner) is blocking the SMTP
 > port -- It's only a guess.... 
 > Does anyone know if I need to have the SMTP port open on my router -- or sho
 > I close that, and see what happends?

You confusing 2 different things here.  In the first part of the message, your
talking about netmail, as in a message sent via a mailer, such as Irex, Argus,
etc... FTN netmail.  The second part your talking about your mail server for
e-mail, pop3, etc..  

I make a quick check for you on your port 25 and 110  SMTP/POP3...  Here's the
answer:

sniper@proxy:~$ telnet cyber-station1.com 25
Trying 64.202.167.129...
Connected to ip-64-202-167-129.secureserver.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]

No answer.

sniper@proxy:~$ telnet cyber-station1.com 110
Trying 64.202.167.129...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

No answer.

So, there's 2 possiblities...  From your statement above, you don't have either
of these ports configured in your router, so, of course, this is what you would
get... But if you do have these ports open, then your ISP is blocking them.

Hope that helps.


Sniper
Killed In Action BBS SysOp
telnet://kia.zapto.org
ftp://kia.zapto.org
nntp://kia.zapto.org:120


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