Can't connect to MS Exchange (SMTP) from WinXP

[jack horsfield]

On 3 Oct 2004 02:35:14 -0700, Miki Tebeka wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I can't connect to our Excahnge server using smtplib from a WinXP box.
> Connection to the same server from a Linux box works.
> 
> The code:
> from smtplib import SMTP
> s = SMTP("our-mail-server")
> 
> Works fine on Linux but gives the following error in WinXP:
> raceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\cygwin\tmp\smtpchk", line 5, in ?
>     s = SMTP("our-mail-server")
>   File "C:\apps\Python23\lib\smtplib.py", line 240, in __init__
>     (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
>   File "C:\apps\Python23\lib\smtplib.py", line 302, in connect
>     raise socket.error, msg
> socket.error: (10053, 'Software caused connection abort')
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.


is your antivirus software blocking the SMTP port (25)? McAfee 8.0i does so
by default...


jack
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