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Can't use port 110 on Win XP

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by jdeez 1 view

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Here's my scenario. Have custemer with two computer behing a linksys firewall. He uses earthlinks pop email server. He runs both norton personal firewall and zone alarm to protect his PC (he's had problems). One of his machines has not problems accessing the server. The other is unable to. We have brough a laptop to his site and have no problems retrieving the mail. We have also reset the router and verified that there is nothing blocking the port at the server. We are unable to telnet to port 110 from that machine either (we were able to from the others). We have shut down both firewalls also with no luck. Any ideas?

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by mrjay67

Xp has a built in firewall. In the network properties area there is an advanced tab that should take you to XP firewall properties. Turn it off or check to make sure that there isnt a rule setup in there. I would keep it off if possible as i haveseen odd behavior with it.

If port 110 is open everywhere, there could be a configuration issue with the email. Maybe a login or password is not set correctly. You may have tried this but I try to assume nothing.

You might try uninstalling norton and zone alarm. There could be a conflict when used together.

just my initial thoughts. could be other stuff im not thinking of right now.

Jason

by djent

I have used Zone alarm rather then Norton or Mcafee firewall, fewer problems and less system overhead. multiple software firewalls is asking for problems, pick one.

by michael.schaeffner

hi folks,
normally Zone alarm is doing a good job, but...
we had some problems with it and a notes-client looking for his server which didnt work until I de-installed it. And cleaned up the registry. The shutdown of zone alarm didnt help.
I sniffed the network with ethereal to find out that there were no packets sent to the server. Godd luck
Michael

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