Split Sendmail Config

[Ed Greshko]

Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Jim van Wel wrote:
>> You should get an error back. So what's the error?
> 
> No error, it never leaves the queue.  It just sits there complaining
> about a read error.  Standard "warning 4 hours" and then "error 5 days"
> messages from sendmail on our mailhost.
> 
> If I switch over for ten minutes to our ISP's smarthost then it's
> gone in just a few seconds and charter.net accept delivery from them.
> 
> If I try to connect to their SMTP port by hand:
> 
>    mirror!~ % telnet charter.net 25
>    Trying 64.192.190.12...
>    telnet: connect to address 64.192.190.12: Connection refused
>    telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> 
> So I think it's an IP address based thing at their end.

You are trying the wrong host.  You need to understand what are MX records 
are about.

host -t mx charter.net
charter.net mail is handled by 10 mail.charter.net.

So you want to talk with mail.charter.net which is 209.225.8.224



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