Re: Port 25 closing?

From: Scot L. Harris (webid_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 03/08/05

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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:18:32 -0500

    On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:11, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
    > This is slightly OT, but ti's been driving me nuts, so I'm hoping
    > someone here might have some suggestions as to what to look for here. I
    > have one Windows XP (SP2) machine that seems to randomly prevent
    > connections to our mail server via port 25. Our internal network
    > connects to our mail server, which is outside of our firewall and only
    > this one machine is having this problem. For no apparent reason at all
    > it will suddenly deny all connections made to the mail server through
    > port 25 (it can still RECEIVE e-mail since that goes over secure IMAP
    > port, but it can't send.) I can log onto the firewall, and everything
    > works as far as opening a connection to the mail server. I can get onto
    > a different machine on the network, and connect to the mail server just
    > fine, so I know it's not a firewall issue. It's just this ONE XP
    > machine that's experiencing this problem. And it only started happening
    > after installing SP2. Looking in Windows' firewall log, there's nothing
    > that points to port 25 being blocked. I can't telnet (to anything on
    > port 25, anywhere) from that machine, can't send e-mail, nothing. The
    > solution? Reboot the machine, and suddenly everything works again. So,
    > what gives?

    Since it is a Windows XP box you might try reinstalling the OS........

    Or better yet, install FC3 on it. That should fix the problem.

    Better run an up to date virus check on it and spyware tool. Could be
    infected. 

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Scot L. Harris
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to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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