ATTN: I.T bods.....HELP!!!!!

[Daniel san]

Guys, help.

I'm using BT Internet to connect to the Evenings and Weekend Surftime package with BT (you know, the £5.99 a month thingy).

I need to know the outgoing mail settings for it cos I've looked on their website and it says "mail.btopenworld.com". Tried this and no joy. http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/frown.gif

Any suggestions??

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Dan
Owner of www.200sxoc.com (http://www.200sxoc.com) and www.puresx.co.uk (http://www.puresx.co.uk) - BOTH, dedicated to the 200SX.

'98 Saphire Blue S14
With a few Blitz and HKS bitz bolted on.
233.5bhp @ Fly / 184bhp @ Wheels - Standard 10psi boost.
0-60 in 6.44secs @ TRAX 2001
1/4 mile 14.7 @ Santa Pod, Oct 14th 2001.
Pops, Bangs and spits flames......constantly!

[andyf]

Dan, strange problem - I dopn't know what the problem is ethere if they say there's no problem. Yoiu coudl possibly try mail.btinternet.com ?

[Daniel san]

Yeah, tried that before I spoke to you last night Andy, no joy http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/frown.gif

I mailed BT this morning to see if they can help.....

[Papa Lazarou]

Try "smtp.btopenworld.com" for outgoing - thats the format Lineone uses.

[Bean]

According to a google search it should be mail.btinternet.com but I tried to ping that address and got no reply.

Perhaps their smtp server is down/crashed?

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1995 S14

[andyf]

Bean, they will have disabled ICMP.

[Daniel san]

They mailed me all the settings.....which are exactly the same as I input and it still don't work!!!

They don't know how to use Outlook (only express), so they couldn't really help.

I'm going to try and set it up in Outlook Express and see if that works.

Cheers guys. Keep any suggestions coming please.

[andyf]

Dan, lemme know how it goes.. it's very strange how itg doesn't work... if only I still had a BT internet caccoutn to test it on... hmm

[andyf]

hmm ahh just talked to you ! heh well ok hmm bizarre

[Richy_Boy]

Outlook will run in exactly the same way as express... http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/frown.gif

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Rich
Fed up with everyone having longer Sigs...
'91 Graphite Grey S13
Jap spec engine, T28, SAAB IC, Jez chip, ND DV,
ND adj. Actuator, Adj. Konis, 17" Alloys, ND springs,
Ecotek valve, K+N, Janspeed and 300zx calipers/discs, GRPA fuel pump, Greenstuff and NO LSD!! :(
Thinking 240bhp now..

[Bean]

Originally posted by andyf:
Bean, they will have disabled ICMP.

I'm not familar with ICMP, please explain.

Is it something to do with restricting pinging to certain addresses?

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1995 S14

[JohnD76]

The majority of hackers will target an IP range using a port scanner. They leave this running, scanning all or selected ports on an IP address or range or IP addies.

The PC which pinged you, will wiat for a responce or a timeout. If a responce is sent from your PC to the attackers PC, then they know that the IP address is allocated and active. Worst still if you aren't running something like Zonealarm, they will be able to work out which OS you have anbd also which software you have running on the machine, by analysing which ports are open, EG 80 and 440 implies HTTP and HTTPS. Quick visit to attrition.ord or similar and find a viable exploit (MS stuff) and bobs your uncle.

However, if you have ICMP echo responces disabled, you machine will not respond to the Ping and the port scanner will move onto the next address, hopefully... Phew

ICMP WTF? http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/ICMP.html

PING WTF? http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PING.html

Hope this helps,

John.

Useful bits:
http://www.zonealarm.co.uk http://www.zonelog.co.uk http://www.pandasoftware.com

To see if Zonealarm is working correctly:
Do this before and after installing ZA http://www.grc.com

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[JohnD76]

Try mail.btinternet.com and
post.btinternet.com

Both are up, ICMP echo responce is disabled, but I am getting 2 ip addresses.