Re: sendmail cannot send outgoing email due to makeconnection faliure



On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:59:50 -0700 (PDT), Andrew <Wu.Andrew.Xi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
% telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25

Success, it can connect.

% telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 587

Fail, the error is:
Trying 209.85.147.114...
telnet: connect to address 209.85.147.114: Connection refused
Trying 209.85.147.27...
telnet: connect to address 209.85.147.27: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Same here. I don't think Gmail supports sending email messages through
_any_ gmail*.google.com host.

There are instructions for Gmail `clients' at:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287

Your Sendmail processes have to act like Gmail `clients', so they are
not expected to connect directly to `gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com'.

Can you describe your Sendmail setup a bit more? It seems that one of
two things are possible:

* You are trying to directly email the world from a Sendmail instance
running in an ISP's network. The ISP provides already a mail relay
which you can use.

* You are trying to use `gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com' as your mail
relay (SMART_HOST), instead of `smtp.gmail.com'.

.



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