Port 25 closing?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 08:02 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 14:49 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> > Mark Haney wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:11 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > I have seen this problem on several SP2 boxes recently.  In every case
> > > killing the firewall has fixed it.  Personally, SP2 _causes_ more
> > > problems than it allegedly fixes IMHO.  I am dreading the day it will be
> > > a mandatory install for my clients.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Maybe that will be the day that you can get them to change to Linux. :)
> > 
> > There are so many applications that were broken with SP2 that even 
> > Microsoft delayed the commercial push.  Now that day is coming to an 
> > end.  I hope it is the day that many corporations see the light and 
> > find the word.  And the word is Linux.
> > 
> > I hear enough screams from the Windows users on a daily basis that I 
> > hope the day that SP2 gets pushed to all machines, is the day that 
> > allus Linux users come to the rescue.
> 
> I think SP2 is the straw that will break the camel's back.  I know
> several of our clients are leaning toward using linux more and more.
> The area I live in (Western NC) has been hit hard because of the economy
> and I hear more and more of my customers complaining about the cost of
> using Windows.  The best part is I'm the only linux guy in my company.
> Maybe I can 'preach the gospel' and convert a few people here.
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SP2 firewall was kind of necessary addition - but of course there are
lots of users that can't configure it. It's not very hard to configure
at all.

Craig