telnet mail.domain.com 25 problems

[bn2hunt]

I have just installed windows 2003 server on a pc and I am trying to send an email from one program that uses our smpt server to send the email. I am getting an error that says it cannot connect to the smtp server.

To test the connection I ran the following command from a command prompt :

telnet mail.domain.com 25.

I am getting error :

connection to mail.domain.com ... counld not connect to the host on port 25: connect failed.

If I run the command on a windows xp pc it works fine. Does anyone have any idea what setting I might need to get this working?

Thanks

DDNWolff

 

[smaslin]

Anyone have any fixes for this? I just started running into this problem myself.

 

[bn2hunt]

Our problem ended up being that the Mcafee Viruscan was blocking port 25. To check if that is what is your problem, open the Mcafee console, double click on access protection rules, and on ours it was the top rule, Prevent mass mailing worms from sending mail.

Hope that helps