Yahoo! Mail Issue

Tue Apr 12 05:17:12 UTC 2011

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Brielle Bruns <bruns at 2mbit.com> wrote:
> On 4/11/11 10:47 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
>> mpetach at opstools1:~>  telnet 219.90.94.56 25
>> Trying 219.90.94.56...
>> Connected to static-host-219-90-94-56.tri.ph.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> ehlo yahoo.com
>> 554 SMTP synchronization error
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>> mpetach at opstools1:~>
>>
>>
>> I imagine when port 25 stops giving 5xx
>> failure message back, mail reception
>> might improve.   ^_^;
>
>
> Works fine for me, your getting an error because your trying to send a
> command before receiving the first 220, aka RFC violation.  As long as you
> connect, wait a moment without trying to send a command, your fine.

Doh!

See, that's what happens when you ask networking people
to try to troubleshoot mail issues.  ^_^;;

Sorry about that.  :(

Matt