[Ilugc] Routing Problem

[Girish Venkatachalam]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:12:32PM +0530, Vinay Yadav wrote:
> I just checked things in detail once again and found that Inbound 
> traffic is working fine whereas outbound traffic is not working.

How do you say this? If ping works, it means everything is fine.
> 
> Thunderbird: I am able to download emails via SMTP - but i am not able 
> to send any emails

You cannot download e-mails via SMTP. You mean POP3 I suppose. 

If you are not able to send mails there could be many reasons. It is somewhat hard to get this working unlike before since now there is lot of spam control software running everywhere.
> 
> GAIM: I am getting messages sent to me - but no one is getting my emails.

Are you able to properly use gaim? It means that everything is fine with network.
> 
> What could be the problem?

Looks like the problem is only with e-mail or am I mistaken?
> 
> Is this something related to netmask 255.255.255.255 on ppp0?

No.

regards,
Girish