Cannot send mail - Port 25 problem ?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,

Just changed over from Norton. I have been using avast all day and it seems to be working fine but I didn’t notice that I didn’t need to actually send any outgoing email until now…

Tried it to several addresses including my own but cannot send anything - getting relay errors.

When I was installing the Home Edition I was given a warning about not being able to access port 25 because of it being occupied. But I never had that problem with Pocomail or Eudora and don’t have a clue how to unblock it or what is using it.

Anyone have any ideas tonight ? :cry:

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Ok _ I admit I was confused by the help files which are very technical.

I think I have now solved it… can you confirm ?

I changed the SMTP setting in the preferences to Port 26 and inserted the following line in to the ini file:
SmtpListen=127.0.0.1:26

Now I appear to be able to send outgoings…

Does this sound right ??

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Yes, you did it right.

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However - someone on usenet replied to my query about this problem by suggesting that I had unknowingly been infestected by this weeks big virus that was trying to use Port 25 to propagate…

??? ???

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Well, avast! should find the virus if it’s present…
You can try to find out what application is occupying this port, to be sure.