pop3 access difficulties

> Can you telnet port 25?
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
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> "Long Nguyen" <LongNguyen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AC6162D7-158C-4B40-9715-13282776433A@microsoft.com...
> heres a good troubleshoot for you techies out there.
>
> well I cannot access pop3 port anywhere.
>
> I suspected norton antivirus had to do something with it. So I understalled
> the software, but it did not soft the problem.
>
> no sort of firewall services are running.
>
> any other ideas? no hardware firewall either. smtp is good

> heres a good troubleshoot for you techies out there.
>
> well I cannot access pop3 port anywhere.
>
> I suspected norton antivirus had to do something with it. So I understalled
> the software, but it did not soft the problem.
>
> no sort of firewall services are running.
>
> any other ideas? no hardware firewall either. smtp is good.

> What type of Internet connection?
> Which mail program are you using, and what is the exact error
> message when attempting a mail download?
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
> "Long Nguyen" <LongNguyen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AC6162D7-158C-4B40-9715-13282776433A@microsoft.com...

> > heres a good troubleshoot for you techies out there.
> >
> > well I cannot access pop3 port anywhere.
> >
> > I suspected norton antivirus had to do something with it. So I understalled
> > the software, but it did not soft the problem.
> >
> > no sort of firewall services are running.
> >
> > any other ideas? no hardware firewall either. smtp is good.

>

> its not the internet connection. vista is installed on my notebook, so my
> network varies with location. other machines on the same network does not
> display the same symptom.
>
> I am using the windows mail that came with vista. I have office 2007 but did
> not install outlook. the error message output by windows mail is irrelevant,
> because I cannot open the pop port via telnet anyway.
>
> fyi. I cannot connect to 'any' pop addresses. so I am pretty sure something
> installed on my system is preventing to gaining access to port 110.
>
> "Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
>

>> What type of Internet connection?
>> Which mail program are you using, and what is the exact error
>> message when attempting a mail download?
>>
>> Gary VanderMolen
>>
>> "Long Nguyen" <LongNguyen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:AC6162D7-158C-4B40-9715-13282776433A@microsoft.com...

>> > heres a good troubleshoot for you techies out there.
>> >
>> > well I cannot access pop3 port anywhere.
>> >
>> > I suspected norton antivirus had to do something with it. So I understalled
>> > the software, but it did not soft the problem.
>> >
>> > no sort of firewall services are running.
>> >
>> > any other ideas? no hardware firewall either. smtp is good.

>>