Pop3 Trouble on a LAN

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Guest

I have 2 machines on a LAN with 45 machines that will not connect to
a local ISP's mail server from the LAN's high speed internet connection.
The machines log onto the server fine and the internet works great, but
the connection to the ISP fails whether using Outlook or Outlook Express.
I tried contacting the mail server using Telnet and it fails as well. The
machines work fine outside of their network and all other machines configured
the same way work fine. I have tried connecting other machines to their
location
and they work fine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Tom
 
E

Eric Renken

Do these machines have a firewall installed. Port 110 would need to be open
for an outbound connection. That is my only quick thought if it is only
some machine that have this problem.
 
Q

Quaoar

tom said:
I have 2 machines on a LAN with 45 machines that will not connect to
a local ISP's mail server from the LAN's high speed internet
connection.
The machines log onto the server fine and the internet works great,
but
the connection to the ISP fails whether using Outlook or Outlook
Express.
I tried contacting the mail server using Telnet and it fails as well.
The
machines work fine outside of their network and all other machines
configured
the same way work fine. I have tried connecting other machines to
their
location
and they work fine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom

Open the mail account in OE and see if the mail server is specified
directly as mail.isp.com and smtp.isp.com. If it anything else like
username/mail.isp.com, change to the former. (This happens with
regularity on some Norton A/V installs).

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E

Eric Renken

If you aren't getting a response with "telnet server:110", like "+OK Server
ready." then something is blocking your connection. The POP server should
respond almost instantly with "+OK....".

Eric Renken
 

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