Thanks Russ.... FYI...I had checked all those items and tossed them as possibilities
I have now found that the cause is McAfee Viruscan Enterprise 8i that is to blame....now I have to figure out a way around it ;-) Thanks to all for the advice 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 1:32 PM 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:4:245184 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
