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Author Local port 25 Doesn't Work.... but 26 does. Any idea?
Chris

2004-09-13, 5:56 pm

I am messing around with setting up the default SMTP server on my
WinXP Pro machine.

I have the SMTP setup like this:

IP Address TCP Port
(All Unassigned) 25
(All Unassigned) 26

telnet localhost 25
Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on
port 25: Con
nect failed

telnet localhost 26
220 computername Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.2600.218
0 ready at Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:51:52 -0500


I thought that maybe some other service was using port 25, so I did a
"netstat -an" which showed:
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:26 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

I then stopped the SMTP Service through IIS, and both of those entries
went away.


Can anyone think of why this would be not working right? I am lost.

Can anyone think of why I can't get it to work on the default port?
Ken Schaefer

2004-09-13, 8:48 pm

Have you got some kind of firewall or similar running?

Cheers
Ken


"Chris" <cmay@walshgroup.com> wrote in message
news:44f6e099.0409130900.5e61f92e@posting.google.com...
>I am messing around with setting up the default SMTP server on my
> WinXP Pro machine.
>
> I have the SMTP setup like this:
>
> IP Address TCP Port
> (All Unassigned) 25
> (All Unassigned) 26
>
> telnet localhost 25
> Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on
> port 25: Con
> nect failed
>
> telnet localhost 26
> 220 computername Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.2600.218
> 0 ready at Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:51:52 -0500
>
>
> I thought that maybe some other service was using port 25, so I did a
> "netstat -an" which showed:
> Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
> TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
> TCP 0.0.0.0:26 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
>
> I then stopped the SMTP Service through IIS, and both of those entries
> went away.
>
>
> Can anyone think of why this would be not working right? I am lost.
>
> Can anyone think of why I can't get it to work on the default port?



Jeff Cochran

2004-09-15, 10:34 am

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:30:44 +1000, "Ken Schaefer"
<kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote:

>Have you got some kind of firewall or similar running?


Or if testing outside your network, does your ISP block port 25?

Jeff


>"Chris" <cmay@walshgroup.com> wrote in message
>news:44f6e099.0409130900.5e61f92e@posting.google.com...
>


Chris

2004-09-22, 9:27 pm

Dumb dumb dumb.

After wasting days trying to figure this out, I find out that port 25
is being blocked by the newest version of McAfee 8.0, which was rolled
out to my machine w/o my knowledge a few weeks ago using SMS.

At least I'm not crazy.

Chris


jeff.nospam@zina.com (Jeff Cochran) wrote in message news:<41563583.1955123188@msnews.microsoft.com>...[vbcol=seagreen]
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:30:44 +1000, "Ken Schaefer"
> <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote:
>
>
> Or if testing outside your network, does your ISP block port 25?
>
> Jeff
>
>
Peter D. Hipson

2004-09-22, 9:27 pm

if it makes you feel better, I suspect most of us have been there
before! <g>

On 16 Sep 2004 14:43:37 -0700, cmay@walshgroup.com (Chris) wrote:

>Dumb dumb dumb.
>
>After wasting days trying to figure this out, I find out that port 25
>is being blocked by the newest version of McAfee 8.0, which was rolled
>out to my machine w/o my knowledge a few weeks ago using SMS.
>
>At least I'm not crazy.
>
>Chris
>

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