Did somebody already mention telnetting to port 25 on the mail machine from the server?
Is the mail server set up to not accept SMTP connections from any IP addresses but specific ones? -Nate > -----Original Message----- > From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 3:33 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: mail server connection verification > > > Are you absolutely 100% sure that firewall is not installed > and/or enabled on the server? Windows firewall comes > preinstalled with SP1 and you have to make sure that it's disabled. > > Also try pinging the mail server from both your laptop and > your server and see if the pings get through... You can also > try doing a tracert to see if the packets are taking the > wrong route somewhere. > > Also check that you don't have any routing policies in place > (on the server for example) which deny connections to any > except specified ip addresses. > > Russ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 3:59 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: mail server connection verification > > > > Thanks Tom and Tanguy. > > > > Yep...telnet confirms that the server cannot establish a > connection to > > the mail server (and my laptop can). > > > > Now the fun begins....what could be the problem?? > > > > There is no firewall (but there is a DSL router, but both my laptop > > and the server go through the router, so it's not the router). > > > > IIS is NOT installed (can't see why it would matter but it's worth > > mentioning)...we're running Apache. > > > > I'll keep digging, but if anyone has soome more > suggestions...ley 'em > > on me. > > > > TIA > > > > Cheers > > > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > > phone: 250.480.0642 > > fax: 250.480.1264 > > cell: 250.920.8830 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:245183 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
