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Re: Windows 2000 - problems accessing demon mail

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From: Mart Rogers
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:00
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In article <VnlmSFAVZvt4EwhQ@thehulls.demon.co.uk>, Robert Hull
<Robert@thehulls.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <pgYnjDA1Mkt4Ew3Y@rogers.demon.co.uk>, Mart Hugh Rogers
><mart@rogers.demon.co.uk> wrote
>>Is there likely to be a W2K support ng soon - I fear we may need it.
>>
>[snip]
>>
>>Turnpike is installed 'out of the box' no special configuration, a
>>single catch all mailbox, and set up for SMTP automatic collection.
>
>ITIYM SMTP delivery
>
>[snip]
>>
>>I dialled back into my other ISP mail account and each mail had bounced
>>- see the bounce at the bottom of this article.
>>
>>
>>I sent some more test emails through to my demon account and this time
>>disabled turnpike mail collection. Did a finger, mail was present in the
>>punts again, Went to access the mail via WebMail - it had all gone.
>>Again I checked back in at my other ISP account - they had all bounced.
>>
>[snip]
>>
>>
>>Any thoughts or comments appreciated,
>>
>>bounced email...
>>=====================================================================
>>Subject: Mail Delivery failed: returning to sender
>>
>>This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>>
>>A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. 
>>The following address(es) failed:
>>
>>  rogers.demon.co.uk [194.222.62.114]:
>>
>>MAIL FROM:<mhr@xxx.co.uk>
>>250 2.1.0 mhr@xxx.co.uk....Sender OK
>>RCPT TO:<mart@rogers.demon.co.uk>
>>550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for mart@rogers.demon.co.uk
>>
>It would appear that you are already running an SMTP server under W2K,
>but because you were unaware of this, it has not been correctly
>configured :-(
>
>Check with Mircosoft, or your manuals how to disable the server

Microsoft are not interested, believe me I have tried over the years;
and my versions on W2K do not ship with anything I would call a manual.

-- 
Mart Rogers
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From: Mart Rogers <mart@rogers.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 - problems accessing demon mail
Date: 2000/02/29
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