Re: Removing XWall

Have you chatted with the support folks at XWall about this? As Mark
indicated, they may be doing something to the SMTP Service.

I'd also recommend posting this in the SBS forum. The folks there may know
of an easy wizard to run to fix the configuration.

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"Jon" <jdharvey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Actually, unfortunately formatting isn't an option- this organization
is a small business with only *one* server, I should have made that
clear initially- so while the issue is with the Exchange Server
component, the organization is running SBS 2003 Standard Ed., and using
it for DNS, AD, DHCP, and file sharing services, in addition to its
email server capacities. We're going to be adding an ISA 2004 server to
act as perimeter security in addition to some other upgrades and were
concerned about XWall being compatible with ISA's email functions as
well as XWall potentially interfering with an upgrade to Exchange 2003
SP2, so we wanted to try and remove it. Since this server is the only
server at present, though, and performs all those functions, as well as
maintaining the Jet database, formatting isn't really an option for us


Mark Arnold [MVP] wrote:
On 12 Sep 2006 00:55:06 -0700, jdharvey@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

We have version 3.29 of XWall on Exchange 2003 SP1 server, and wish to
remove it, as we're changing our anti-spam solution. Every time we
uninstall it, mail stops coming in. If we stop the service, mail stops
coming in. We have to reinstall it in order to recieve anything. Any
thoughts? Anyone had a problem with this before?

Thanks,

Jon Harvey

Removing software and then replacing it with something else is always
going to be ugly. I'd format the box and start again. You should only
have this on an FE so it won't be a very big job.

If you do have all this piled onto your mailbox server you should
check to see what xwall has done with the SMTP VSI, like changing the
port that it listens on and whether it's running etc.



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