Author: vfpmcp@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
Posted: 2004-06-03 14:01:52 Link
Works fine from our PCs but not the client. The message returned from blat is:
Error: cannot connect to server (timed out if winsock.dll error 10060)
Error: not a socket
Is this a firewall issue? What must be done at that site to allow this to work?
TIA!
--Michael
Author: Gene Vital
Posted: 2004-06-03 14:31:20 Link
Is there a firewall on the machine ?
Is the mail server internal or through there ISP over the internet ?
If they are able to send and receive via another program like 'Outlook'
then it probably isn't a firewall issue
Can you ping the mailserver from the PC ?
To test what ports are open on the PC you could Google for NMAPNT
it works pretty well, or, if you have access to a Linux box :) on the
network
you could check to see if NMAP is installed and use that.
vfpmcp@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
>Works fine from our PCs but not the client. The message returned from blat is:
>
>Error: cannot connect to server (timed out if winsock.dll error 10060)
>Error: not a socket
>
>Is this a firewall issue? What must be done at that site to allow this to work?
>
>TIA!
>--Michael
>
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Author: Richard Kaye
Posted: 2004-06-03 15:06:48 Link
You can also try telneting to the mail server on port 25 from the box
that is failing to connect. That should tell you if the SMTP port is
inaccessible or not.
Gene Vital wrote:
> Is there a firewall on the machine ?
> Is the mail server internal or through there ISP over the internet ?
> If they are able to send and receive via another program like 'Outlook'
> then it probably isn't a firewall issue
> Can you ping the mailserver from the PC ?
>
> To test what ports are open on the PC you could Google for NMAPNT
> it works pretty well, or, if you have access to a Linux box :) on the
> network
> you could check to see if NMAP is installed and use that.
>
>
> vfpmcp@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
>
>> Works fine from our PCs but not the client. The message returned
>> from blat is:
>>
>> Error: cannot connect to server (timed out if winsock.dll error 10060)
>> Error: not a socket
>>
>> Is this a firewall issue? What must be done at that site to allow
>> this to work?
>>
>> TIA!
>> --Michael
>>
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