[OSX-Users] Re: smtp.ecs - not working from other unis

[Luke Teacy]

My setup looks like this:



So far, no problems, but might depend on whatever other firewalls you are behind?

That might also explain your VPN not working. When I was in Ulster, their policy was to block pretty much everything, including OUTGOING traffic to a VPN. Seemed like over kill to me, but the only way around was either to fill in a form, or resort to ssh tunnelling.

Luke


On 18 Apr 2012, at 13:01, David Millard wrote:

> I have the same problem, with intermittent failure of smtp.ecs
> 
> I must confess that when it happens I simply tell the client to use one of my private smtp servers, but it is still an annoyance.
> 
> Dave
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. David Millard (dem at ecs.soton.ac.uk)
> University of Southampton
> 
> http://www.davidmillard.org
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 Apr 2012, at 12:53, m.c. schraefel wrote:
> 
>> sometimes
>> like now from Bournemouth
>> the smtp.ecs to send email seems to fail
>> 
>> I'll try changing port to 25 or 2525 from 993
>> doesn't help
>> 
>> and then later it will just work
>> 
>> any idea on how to get success at these stall moments?
>> 
>> also the VPN would not connect so not an option
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> mc
>> at Bournemouth u
>> 
>> Sent from my iSomething
>> 
> 

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