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?

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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?

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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
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>

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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.micros
oft.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
>
> 

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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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