Can receive but not send

[flashwiregsn]

I can check for mail in thunderbird with no problem, and no error messages pop up. However, when I attempt to send an email, it gives me an error. I've confirmed the account details over and over again in DirectAdmin and I've even tried to reconfigure exim, but to no avail. The error message I receive:

"Sending of message failed.

The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server mail.flashwirenetwork.net failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server setting is correct and try again, or else contact your network administrator."

Is anyone else having this same problem? Does DA's mailserver even accept SMTP on port 25?

 

[Eric]

Perhaps your ISP has blocked access to port 25. I can connect to your port 25 without a problem.

telnet mail.flashwirenetwork.net 25
220 vapor.flashwirenetwork.net ESMTP Exim 4.42 Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:51:45 -0700

 

[flashwiregsn]

That very well may be, I'll ask my ISP if they block 25. In the meantime, how can I set SMTP to accept connections on a different port, such as 587?

 

[Eric]

Change daemon_smtp_ports = 25 to daemon_smtp_ports = 25 : 587 in /etc/exim.conf will allow exim to listen on both ports.

 

[flashwiregsn]

Well, changing the port to 587 DID help. I actually got past that last error message, but I received an "Unexpected Failure" message which stopped the test email from sending.