Thanks Jerry! With your help I got it working. Here are the missing pieces:
First, as you suggested, I had to poke a few holes in the firewall for the ports. The router also needed to be adjusted. Then the DNS needed to be reworked. I don't have much experience with domain name servers so I'm making this ZoneEdit centric: Under IP Addresses I set foo.com to the static IP. Then, under mail servers, I set "foo.com handles 1st for domain pop3.foo.com" and "foo.com handles 1st for domain smtp.foo.com" Now, for Outlook's "Incoming mail server" I can put "pop3.foo.com" and for "Outgoing mail server" I can put "smtp.foo.com." I COULD HAVE SET ONLY ONE "DOMAIN" LIKE MAIL.FOO.COM AND USED THAT FOR BOTH. I just wanted to be a little more fancy. RE: Ethereal. I was wondering what was out there for a software "Sniffer." Thanks! nh-tom First thought might be a firewall. How is the server attached to the internet? Is it on a leased server, co-located, etc? or is it on a machine connected through a home/office router and roadrunner/dsl, etc? If you're going through a router, they most often double as a firewall, and you have to configure them to open up ports 110 and 25. BTW... I suspect outlook's use of the word 'server' is rather loose. I believe it is saying that the IP address exists (responds to a ping), not that it actually found a server service running on port 25 of that IP address. Otherwise, it gets a little more difficult to diagnose. If you are really brave, you can download Ethereal which is a packet trace program. You can see absolutely everything that comes across the wire. But it is non-trivial to read. If you look at the trace and do not see the smtp and pop requests, then the problem is upstream. if you do see the pop and smtp requests in the trace, then it's most likely something in JAMES that isn't correct. Maybe there's another way to isolate what is happening that's not as involved as Ethereal. But Ethereal is the way I've debugged similar problems in the past. Jerry -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22Now-Kiddies...%22--Rank-amateur-questions...-tp15127459p15151221.html Sent from the James - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
