Email Help

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Mark Knecht wrote:

> On 6/23/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I though I'd sent this message out about a week ago but haven't
> > seen it show up or any replies so maybe I forgot (been doing a
> > lot of OT at work lately).
> >
> > Anyway, awhile ago this list helped me get my son's XP machine to
> > pick his email up from my FC2 box that uses fetchmail to go out
> > and download the families email and hold it for later reading.
> >
> > Well that machine finally died and we had to purchase a new XP
> > machine for school programs.
> >
> > The instructions were:
> >
> > Make sure dovecot was installed on the FC2 box using "service
> > dovecot status" seems to be working OK.
> >
> > Then using telnet 192.168.1.55 143 from the XP box and I get
> > dovecot answering back.
> >
> > Setting up Outlook to go to 192.168.1.44 using IMAP (port 143).
> > On the old machine the email came right over.  ON the new machine
> > I get a TCP/IP error.
>
> Does the new machine have the Windows Firewall enabled by default? If
> so try turning it off to see if that's the issue and, if it was,
> change the port permissions to get around it.
>
> Look in the Windows Control Panel, Security section I believe, to find
> the firewall.
>
> Hope this  helps,
> Mark
>
Thanks Mark,  I checked the Windows Firewall and it was off.  I
dug through it and found where it would be setup to block IMAP
and port 143 turned it on and turned on the firewall.  No change.
Same error - file not found TCP/IP error.

Brad