SMTP failing since install of WXP SP2

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Ed

Since installing Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, I
get the following error: Outlook Is Unable to Connect to
Your Outgoing (SMTP)

This is occuring on all e-mail accounts.
 
Do you have any software installed that scans POP3/SMTP mail or is the
account configured to work thru a loopback address (localhost or 127.0.0.x)?
 
Ed said:
Since installing Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, I
get the following error: Outlook Is Unable to Connect to
Your Outgoing (SMTP)
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Check to make sure you are properly authenticating to the outgoing server.
Add Outlook to the Windows firewall exception list.
 
neo said:
Do you have any software installed that scans POP3/SMTP mail
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Yes I have NAV but have tried with it scanning and not scanning it doesn't
seem to make any difference.
or is the account configured to work thru a loopback address (localhost or 127.0.0.x)?
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Not that I know of.

The only thing I did was install SP2 and ever since then I have not been
able to use outlook for any email. I have permitted port 25 traffic.
 
neo said:
Do you have any software installed that scans POP3/SMTP mail
Click to expand...

Yes I have NAV but have tried with it scanning and not scanning it doesn't
seem to make any difference.
or is the account configured to work thru a loopback address (localhost or 127.0.0.x)?
Click to expand...

Not that I know of.

The only thing I did was install SP2 and ever since then I have not been
able to use outlook for any email. I have permitted port 25 traffic.
 
neo said:
Do you have any software installed that scans POP3/SMTP mail
Click to expand...

Yes I have NAV but have tried with it scanning and not scanning it doesn't
seem to make any difference.
or is the account configured to work thru a loopback address (localhost or 127.0.0.x)?
Click to expand...

Not that I know of.

The only thing I did was install SP2 and ever since then I have not been
able to use outlook for any email. I have permitted port 25 traffic.
 
Brian Tillman said:
Check to make sure you are properly authenticating to the outgoing server.
Add Outlook to the Windows firewall exception list.
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I believe outlook is on the firewall exception list, however I get the
failures whether the firewall is enabled or not, even permitting port 25
traffice.

I also get the error whether I turn NAV scanning on or off.

Here are the steps:
1. Outlook works perfect.
2. Install SP2
3. Outlook SMTP fails on all mail accounts ever since then no matter what I
do.
 
You shouldn't have to define any exceptions for Outlook. Do me a favor and
take a peek at your POP3/SMTP account properties. What is the server value
set to for POP3 and SMTP?
 
Sorry for the repeats the board said the posts failed.

Anyway I finally found the problem... Around the same time I installed SP2
- optonline decided to block all residential outbound port 25 traffic without
telling any of their customers about it. Despite all my searches on the web
took me a while to narrow it down to that.

Ed.
 
Sadly, that's happening a lot. ISPs are flailing around trying to stop
spam, and this is one of the things that somebody thought was a good idea.
I haven't seen a reduction in spam, however - all it does is make the
Internet less useful...
 
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