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Thread: Open Port 995 Windows Vista

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    She who must be obeyed Super Moderator piaqt's Avatar
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    I posted the following in the Vista\Mail newsgroup, and have received no response. So I'm posting here, where the brains are.
    I ran the port query tool and got:
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    Starting portqry.exe -n 127.0.0.1 -e 995 -p TCP ...

    Querying target system called:
    127.0.0.1

    Attempting to resolve IP address to a name...
    IP address resolved to xxxxx

    querying...

    TCP port 995 (pop3s service): NOT LISTENING
    portqry.exe -n 127.0.0.1 -e 995 -p TCP exits with return code 0x00000001.

    Same results for ports 25 and 110. So how do I fix this? I've tried adding these ports to the exceptions list in windows firewall. Windows mail is already in that list. I disabled the firewall, antivirus email scanning...
    None of that did anything. I keep getting

    The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'MSN', Server: 'pop3.email.msn.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

    Help.

    Last night, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know.
    love, piaqt

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    Super Moderator Super Moderator Big Booger's Avatar
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    Are you doing this with outlook? Outlook express?

    Did you try Eudora or Thunderbird? Perhaps it's a problem with the mail client.

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    Triple Platinum Member Curio's Avatar
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    Your port 110, 995, 25 etc don't need to be open - they are the ports on the server. Your results are correct.
    I'm using Windows 7 - you got a problem with that?

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