Have you tried running tcpdump or ethereal while he is trying to see the
network traffic?
Dan
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:44 -0500, Preston Podaril wrote:
> I was hoping maybe some of you that have a little better understanding
> of the technical side of OS X could help me out here. I am totally
> baffled by this, it just doesn't make any sense on what could be going
> on. Here is the problem and scenario:
>
> We have Postifix listening on ports 25 and 2525 for outgoing smtp
> connections. My boss contacted me earlier this morning that he couldn't
> send out email from his OS X Tiger machine using mail.app He is setup
> to use port 2525. He said it was giving him a failed to connect and
> asked if he wanted to use a different outgoing server or try again. He
> used another outgoing server to send out several messages, but left
> several sitting in his outbox waiting to use our mailserver on port
> 2525. During this period that he couldn't send, I sent out two test
> messages from my work account using work's outgoing smtp server one from
> port 25 one from port 2525 to my yahoo account. Both went through just
> fine.
>
> I had my boss change his settings in mail.app to use port 25, the
> messages in his outbox sent fine. Then I had him open a terminal and
> telnet to the mail server port 2525, and this prompted him back with the
> normal postfix response. I then had him switch his settings back to
> port 2525 and send me a test email to my yahoo account. This also
> worked fine.
>
> Any idea on why this could be happening? He connects at work through
> the LAN on a wired connection and then connects from home using a
> wireless connection. I can't seem to determine what could be going on
> here, it makes no sense to my why just changing mail settings to
> something else and back again would cause it to just magically work
> again if it was not working previously.
>
> Thanks for any idea you guys can give!
>
> Preston Podaril
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