General Problems

[Rick Stevens]

Matthew Galgoci wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> 
>>Mugleston, Brad wrote:
>>
>>>I'll check again tonight but I believe this was everything in this log file from about 21:16 (the entry just before this one) to the end of the log file.
>>>
>>>As far as I know I don't have PINE or the email part of Mozilla pointed anywhere other than my machine (SMTP) when sending email.  Could someone point me where to look in either Pine or Mozilla and Evolution to compare my setups?
>>
>>That's the issue.  Your machine is trying to send the outgoing email
>>outside of Comcast's network and they're blocking it.  So, the outgoing
>>mail can't be delivered and your machine logs an error which gets sent
>>back to your mail client (Mozilla or Evolution or whatever).
> 
> 
> Yay for comcast! It's about bloody time they blocked outbound smtp :)

I don't know for sure if that's what they're doing, but I suspect it
since Brad's machine seems to be exhibiting the classic "SMTP access
denied" behaviour and it _used_ to work.

I think that "EX_USAGE" is the wrong error to return in these
conditions.  It should be "EX_UNAVAILABLE" (69), "EX_PROTOCOL" (76)
or "EX_NOPERM" (77), although that last one may be deceptive as well.
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