Re: I can receive emails, just can't send them

From: Vanguard (vanguard_stealth_at_yahooNIXTHIS.com)
Date: 01/21/05


Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:02:19 -0600


"Justin H" <Justin H@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:20E425B8-B06E-4DF9-B5F7-A4651E23EF1E@microsoft.com...
> Yesterday, all of the sudden, I cannot send emails at all. All 3
> computers
> on my network no longer send emails. I get the following error:
> 0x80042109.
> I cannot telnet to my smtp server on port 25. What can I do to fix
> this?

If you cannot telnet into the mail server, and if you aren't getting
blocked by a firewall, then how do you know the SMTP server is actually
reachable and actually running? Can you do a traceroute to the SMTP
host? Can you ping that host (they may have pinging disabled)?
Reaching the host and it responding to a ping does NOT mean the mail
server program that is supposed to be running on that [boundary] host is
actually running and responsive. Have you called the e-mail provider to
determine that their SMTP server is okay?

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