On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:11 -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 02:27 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > > As I explained in my original message, it's not the mail server. > > Other machines on the network can continue to connect and send through > > it just fine. This is strictly an XP problem on one of the machines - > > all the other ones are working just fine (although none of them are > > running SP2 except for this one problematic one.) > > > > As someone else suggested, next time it happens, I'll shut down the > > Windows Firewall, see if that clears things up - my guess is it will. > > Just to keep you aware (and this doesn't sound to be the case, here) > many of the ISPs have begun shutting down port 25 outbound to the world > due to spam and viruses. Caused a lot of problem across town, on SBC. > Thankfully, it was reversable. > > Just something to keep in mind. Here in Bellsouth land we cannot get inbound port 25 traffic either, even though I have a fixed IP address. I guess they think all we want to do is run web servers. Bob...
