The windows firewall being only one way is severely flawed and can easily be set to allow both way trafic by someone with the knowledge to do so. In my opinion it is pants and you should never rely on it as your only defence. I use sygate and have disabled the windows firewall altogether. Try looking in the apps section within sygate and see if it is blocking your e-mails there. If so it is easily changed.
Martin Peter Beasley recently said:-
I would do that as the windows firewall is only one way.----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:32 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sygate blocking emailHi, I would remove Cygate and just use the Windows Firewall. I've been using Windows Firewall ever since I owned my first Windows XP machine, and, touch wood, I haven't been hacked once. Hope that helps.Andy Collins wrote:Hi all -Started having the same problem again, where I could only receive incoming mail, with my SMTP server failing to respond when sending messages. I just disabled Sygate, and all seems to be ok.So, what do I need to do with Sygate to get the programme to allow OE to send messages?And, am I safe leaving Sygate disabled now that I have a firewall in my router?Thanks - Andy ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faqGet your FREE SECURE email account from http://www.topmail.co.uk ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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