Steve,
Re-installing will not overwrite that registry entry. I see Scott answered
the rest of your questions.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Wasiura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Problem
> Hi Dan,
> > Well, it looks like that from the response you show (which is less than
> > yesterday's!). But IMail _does_ understand EHLO and ESMTP! So either
this
> is
> > not IMail your client is connecting to, or IMail is not working
properly.
> > Did you try undoing the registry hack for the SMTP service message???
> No I did not. I'm afraid to mess it up again. I'm just going to reinstall
> the entire imail server today.
>
> > Why are you responding to a different thread? What about my other
comments
> > (like using an IP for the OHN!)? I cannot help without some answers to
my
> > questions!
> Sorry, the day got pretty crazy and I must have missed that message. I
guess
> I don't understand why the official host name must be a fqdn, is it a
> requirement of the internet mail standards? Does it just have to be in the
> format: domain.com or does it have to be a registered name? Do recving
> email servers do a reverse lookup on the sever name to filter out spam?
>
>
> > I cannot connect to your server today. And the DNS entries are gone for
> > mail. And I am not getting a SOA record for your domain. And no MX
record,
> > either.
> I am using the domain myvasp.com to test the iMail service, if that
> helps. If ou were looking at cbs4u.com, our server was down on the
weekend.
>
> > Guess I'm trying to say, that I see no 'proof' this is an IMail server
> > responding to your client's SMTP session so I cannot say what the
problem
> > might be. From what I saw yesterday, your IMail configuration is pretty
> > strange and since I don't know exactly what you have, I can only make
wild
> > guesses about why IMail might be working this way (if it is IMail!).
> >
> > Daniel Donnelly
>
> Thanks for your help in troubleshooting. I have seom network enginerrs
> looking at it today, to determine if it is a firewall problem.
>
> Our network security policy requires the mail server to be behind a
> firewall. Is this going to be a problem, and why? or is it just that the
> firewall has to support ESMTP? Does ESMTP require a different port than 25
> to send and recv SMTP AUTH commands?
>
>
>
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Problem
> >
> > So if I look at the SMTP.log file on my client machine and it says
> > SMTP: 12:43:10 [tx] EHLO ws1
> > SMTP: 12:43:10 [rx] 502 unimplemented command
> > SMTP: 12:43:10 [tx] HELO ws1
> > SMTP: 12:43:10 [rx] 250 hello 127.0.0.1
> >
> > since it doesn't recognize the EHLO, does that mean either the mail
server
> > doesn't support ESMTP ?
> >
> > -steve
>
>
>
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