Topic: Newbie question

[tanyu]

I try to connect to my mailboxes via outlook 2002 and fail...
I use mail.mydomain.xx as servers, but I always get a message saying that the pop or the smtp server have been found but did not answer, and asks to verify ssl and ports options.
Is there someting speicial about them ? I found nowhere a howto about sending and reteriving mail with windows clients, so I supposed this to be standard??

Can anybody help ?

Tnx in advance.

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Phil

[Julian Luton]

try telneting to your server (using the same server address as Outlook is using)

telnet server.address.xx 25

it should reply with something like this

220 server.address.xx mailfront ESMTP

type quit to leave it

if it does then your problem lies with Outlook

also if you're using a fully qualified domain without the server being your dns server you could have problems sending mail - try using it's private ip

you could do much the same on the pop front

telnet server.address.xx 110

etc..

all the best
julian

[tanyu]

Well I did not suceed in telneting the ports via the netbios name nor the ip adress, but when replacing the name of the server by its adress in outlook xp it finally works...  thanks a lot for your help.

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Phil.