Windows can't connect to POP3/SMTP

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Philip Q [MVP]

Hi,

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional (SP4, latest patches, etc.), which was
working fine until a couple of weeks ago when it seems to have lost the
ability to connect to any POP3 or SMTP servers (i.e.. I can no longer
retrieve email).
I have tried different accounts and different mail applications (Outlook and
Thunderbird) with no success. Both of the applications report the ability to
"find" the server, but then reports - "The specified server was found, but
there was no response from the server."
I know that the settings are correct and that the server does exist because
I can retrieve my email from other machine just fine. I'm behind a
Firewall/NAT, but the settings haven't changed in months and every other
machine that connects through it works just fine, so I can't see that as
being a problem.
As you can see, I can connect and use NNTP just fine and as far as I can
see, it's only POP3/SMTP ports (I'm guessing that it's something to do with
that, since it can resolve the servers, but not much else) that are causing
a problem.
TCP/IP filtering is off and I'm lost at what's causing this. Does anyone
have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Philip
 
Hi,
First delete the user account from the local machine,then
you just reconnect the machine with server domain and
configure.
Best of Luck ,Wish you Happy New Year.
 
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