can't telnet out port 25

[Thomas Charron]

On Nov 15, 2007 11:00 AM, Charlie Farinella
<cfarinella at appropriatesolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> We have a dedicated server at GoDaddy running CentOS 4.5 and I'm trying
> to set up a mail server (Postfix).
> - I can telnet to port 25 on the server, and can send mail in.
> - I can neither send mail out, or telnet out to another server on port
> 25.
> My first assumption was that they (GoDaddy) are blocking outward traffic
> on port 25, so I called them, but they say they are not.
> I am not all that familiar with iptables, but this is what appears in my
> rules list:
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW
> tcp dpt:smtp
> I'm at a loss if GoDaddy is not blocking outbound on this port, what am
> I missing?

  Doesn't GoDaddy use proxies?  I know when PHP scripts want to go out
to request an HTTP resource for things like shopping carts, they have
to use a proxy.

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-- Thomas