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Re: Using mutt with msmtp, esmtp and Fastmail.FM



On Thu Dec 15, 2005 at 07:19:04PM -0600, Will Maier wrote:
> 
> Any errors encountered will be found in msmtp.log. Let it run until
> it returns. If you're having connection problems, verify that you
> can reach the SMTP server using nc(1):
>     
>     # for i in 25 26 465 587; do nc -vzw 3 mail.messagingengine.com $i; done
> 
> The command might take a little while (25 egress is presumably
> blocked by $YOUR_ISP, but it's worth checking).
> 
> Mail back to the list with any errors you encounter.
> 

Will,
    Tried the above command with another server I am having problems with and
got:

>> 129(~)ttyp1:$ for i in 25 26 465 587; do nc -vzw 3 server.edu $i; doneDNS
>> fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys04.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys05.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys06.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys07.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys08.server.com
>> server.edu [35.9.75.104] 25 (smtp) : Operation timed out
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys04.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys05.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys06.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys07.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys08.server.com
>> server.edu [35.9.75.104] 26 (?) : Operation timed out
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys04.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys05.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys06.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys07.server.com
>> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: server.edu != sys08.server.com
>> server.edu [35.9.75.104] 465 (urd) open

It seems that the only open port is 465, but I do not know what (urd) is. Any
ideas?

Thanks again,
Jason

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