Stefano,

Thank you for the speedy reply. The Windows firewall is disabled. Wouldn't
the firewall block all connections not just those from windows. Unix
connections still succeed.


Scott 



Stefano Bagnara-2 wrote:
> 
> If telnet from localhost work then this is probably a firewall issue.
> Check your windows firewall.
> 
> Stefano
> 
> Scott Nusbaum ha scritto:
>> Thank you in advance for any help.
>> 
>> I installed James 2.3.1 on windows xp without any problems. I can telnet
>> to
>> port 25 and 4555 successfully from this same machine when using the
>> commands: 
>>  telnet localhost 25 
>>  telnet localhost 4555
>>  telnet machinename 4555
>>  telnet <ip address> 4555
>> 
>> but when I try the command telnet machinename 25  or telnet <ip address>
>> 25
>> it fails with the message:
>> 
>>  Connecting To machinename..Could not open connection to the host, on
>> port
>> 25: Connect Failed.
>> 
>> netstat -an command confirms that the port is listening: 
>>   Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
>>   TCP    0.0.0.0:25             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>>   TCP    0.0.0.0:110            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>>   TCP    0.0.0.0:119            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>>   TCP    0.0.0.0:4555           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>> 
>> If I log into a Unix machine and use either of the above commands it
>> connects successfully.  If I log into another windows machine the same
>> commands fail. 
>> Does anyone know why this would be?
>> 
>> I have used some of sample programs from the Tutorials to generate and
>> send
>> emails they work as long as the mail client is as follows:
>>    MailClient greenClient = new MailClient("green", "localhost");
>> when the localhost is changed to machinename a "Connection refused:
>> connect"
>> exception is reported.
>> 
>> Rather than posting the complete config.xml file if needed please let me
>> know what sections are needed. The same results happen before and after I
>> configure the config.xml file.
>> 
>> Thank you again.
>> 
>> Scott
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