help setting port 110 to LISTEN

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Hi,
Recently our lynksys firewall gadget crapped out. We are connected using a cable modem so I (temporary measures) hooked up a hub and got connectivity but now we are having trouble with the mail. Specifically sending mail. The error code I get points to port 110 not LISTENING. If I understand correctly, mail uses ports 25 to read and 110 to send. If I do a netstat -an I see TCP 0.0.0.0:25 .... LISTENING but no entry at all for port 110. How do I tell port 110 to start listening? If I go to the connection properties the "Settings" button is disabled. So I can't even try to add a port
netstat allows you to view port information is there a command that allows for the setting of individual ports?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Regards,
wizbang

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

If the port is not listening you need to look at the config of your mail
service, not the config of tcp/ip. You cannot "add a port" in TCP/IP, you
need to configure your Pop mail service to open tcp 110.


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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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Hi,
Recently our lynksys firewall gadget crapped out. We are connected using a

cable modem so I (temporary measures) hooked up a hub and got connectivity
but now we are having trouble with the mail. Specifically sending mail. The
error code I get points to port 110 not LISTENING. If I understand
correctly, mail uses ports 25 to read and 110 to send. If I do a netstat -an
I see TCP 0.0.0.0:25 .... LISTENING but no entry at all for port 110. How do
I tell port 110 to start listening? If I go to the connection properties the
"Settings" button is disabled. So I can't even try to add a port

netstat allows you to view port information is there a command that allows

for the setting of individual ports?