Re: [Hampshire] Kmail sending problem

On 10/09/11 14:11, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:00:58 +0100, linux@??? said:
>
>> Any ideas on solutions or even just what else I can do to debug this.
>
> What port are you sending to? Typically it will be 25, 465 or 587. Can you
> establish a connection using telnet to that port of the upstream SMTP
> server? If not, can you ping it? If not, you have a connectivity issue.
> Try telnet/ping using both the name and IP address. If latter succeeds
> where the former fails, you have DNS problem. If you can telnet/ping by
> both without problem, you have a KMail problem.
>

So ping succeeds and telnet fails from the laptop with "Connection
refused.". That gives me something to go on, so thank you.

Leo