[YLUG] email problem

[Liam Wilson]

I tried this and found that I was only able to connect
if I put in the IP addresses (which I obtained with
nslookup on the same machine) directly. Otherwise I
got:

Trying 1.0.0.0...
telnet: connect to address 1.0.0.0: Connection timed
out.

I also got the same results when I tried this on my
Slackware machine on the same LAN, but I can access
the email on that machine. I also tried running
thunderbird in a virtual slackware machine on my
problem PC, and it  works fine even with the same
telnet problems.

Thanks
Liam


-- john halewood <john.halewood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Look at your settings for the mail server(s), if you
> open up a shell
> window and telnet to the appropriate servers, do you
> get a response?
> e.g.
> telnet pop3.tiscali.co.uk 110
> for the pop3 service and
> telnet smtp.tiscali.co.uk 25
> for the smtp service.
> If you don't get a response then it might be a
> problem with the DNS
> resolution on the PC. To isolate that as the problem
> telnet directly
> to the IP addresses of the appropriate services. If
> that still doesn't
> work, I'd start looking at the cables (if it's not
> wireless).
> 
> cheers
> john
> 
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