Re: SMTP Security

From: Hairy One Kenobi (abuse_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:18:15 GMT

"NoSpam" <me@here.com> wrote in message
news:IYySd.8926$i6.97883@nasal.pacific.net.au...
> I am currently upgrading my Exchange from E2000/W2000 to E2003/W2003.
W2003
> has all of the latest hot fixes and service packs.
>
> I have a command-line utility for sending SMTP messages. On my old W2000
> server, I run a small task every day and e-mail the statistics to myselve
> via this command line utility.
>
> I have tried to port this to my new W2003 with disappointing results.
>
> From my desktop PC, I can use the SMTP utility to send to both the W2000
and
> the W2003 server without a problem. However, when I try to use the
> command-line SMTP utility on the W2003 server to send a message to itself,
> connection fails.
>
> When I try troubleshooting with Telnet to port 25, I get the following
> message, "Connecting To a.b.c.d...Could not open connection to the host,
on
> port 25: Connect failed". This happens no matter what server I attempt to
> contact (external servers as well). I can also connect from the W2000
> server to itself.
>
> Is there a feature in a hotfix or a service pack, possibly aimed at
stopping
> SPAM, etc, that is designed to prevent a W2003/E2003 server connecting to
> port 25 from the command line?

I (for one) have not heard of a specific block.

OTOH, might you be missing some config info that was entered all those years
ago, and isn't mirrored on the new server? If it's CLI, then it's quite
possibly an INI file dropped somewhere, rather than (e.g.) registry. 

-- 
Hairy One Kenobi
Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this opinion do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!

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