From: John Beckett 

Scott  wrote in message
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> Glen and I have been working on a mailserver machine that refuses to do
> ONE thing correctly. It won’t open port 25.

What Geo said, particularly 'netstat -an' at command prompt. Or:

netstat -an | find ":25"

I would be looking for a log file with an error message from the mail
software reporting some config problem. Possibly Event Viewer, but more
likely some file with the software you mentioned.

John

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