From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-09-04T22:05:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Email with attachments?


"Robert McGovern" <robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk> wrote in message
> Lost your response, I think you said that you weren't behind a proxy

 Correct ! I am not behind any proxy (this is my Home PC).

> but behind a router. That shouldn't make any difference then.

Ok good. I don't remember if my router has a built in firewall. I'll check.

> Can you ping the mail.xxxx.xxx address you are using from you dev
> machine?

No ... ping times out too. It translates smtp.everestkc.net to
mail.everestkc.net though.

> Can you telnet to the mail.xxxxx.xxx address at port 25 from the dev
> machine?

Yes, I can but I don't get a login prompt or anything. This is what I see:

220
******0******************************************************************2**
********0***********
*****200***

and then the session hangs. I had to close the DOS window to
come out of it.

But I was able to use the utility "blat"
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/blat)
which uses smtp to send mails. No problems there. And of course, I
am using Outlook Express to send this email. So there must be a way.

And where there is a way there is a will ... or some such :-)
Thanks for your continued attention.
-- shanko