[cs615asa] hw4 security groups

[Jan Schaumann]

Javed Akhtar <jakhtar at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> I am facing one problem regarding the SMTP part of assignment. When I am
> trying to send email from one of the instance using the program 'mail'

You should not use the 'mail' program.  You should use telnet to port 25
and issue the SMTP commands yourself.

> Also, I got an email from AWS saying that I reached a limit on the volume of
> email that I can send out of SMTP port 25 on my instance. Does that mean, I
> am actually able to send emails from my instance but the SMTP port is
> blocked at Stevens so I am not able to receive those sent emails?

Sounds like Amazon throttles outbound mail per instance to prevent
spamming.  Try to shut down the instance and create a new one.

-Jan