Re: Cannot access local mailserver from clients

From: S. Pidgorny [MVP] (slavickp@yahoo.com)
Date: 07/31/02 

From: "S. Pidgorny [MVP]" <slavickp@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:24:10 +1000

Tim,

you have tried to telnet: is that telnet to ports 25 and 110? If both fail,
I'm afraid, your server service is either not started or is just screwed up.
Try to restart that first? 

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Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-
"Tim Thornton" <tt@marinecomputing.com> wrote in message
news:209c01c23738$e7c8d4b0$9ee62ecf@tkmsftngxa05...
> Hello,
> We have a problem on a TCP/IP LAN with all Win2K machines.
> There is one server/domain controller which is also
> running a mail server (Mdaemon).
> The client machines cannot access the mail server any
> more. Outlook generates a TCP/IP error, and if I try and
> telnet into the mail server I get a message saying it
> cannot be accessed, but I can ping the server and access
> files.
> I have tried this with both domain user accounts and also
> by removing the client machines from the domain to a
> workgroup and having local machine accounts; this suggests
> that it is not a group policy problem.
> IPSec is not enabled, so that is not the problem.
> Nothing appears in the mail sever's log files as far as I
> can see, which suggests that it is something that Windows
> is doing rather than the mail sever.
> Obvious things like IP addresses and POP and SMTP ports
> are correct.
> Anyone got any ideas?
> Tim

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