POP3 Problem

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 07/31/04


Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:17:24 -0700

You can't turn on the ports, your ISP has to enable those,
but you ISP may provide alternate ports that the servers
you are trying to use may accept. You'll need to check
with the ISP and admin of the email servers you are going
to.
>-----Original Message-----
>Outlook 2K cannot not find my ISP's mail servers,
>mail.<ISPNAME>.net. This is a problem on 2 of 5
>computers. When I telnet port 110 I get an error message,
>and netstat -an shows 110 and 25 are not listening. How
>do I turn them on?
>
>Thanks
>S.Low
>.
>



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