Re: [h-e-w] Firewalls and smtpmail

[Harald . Maier . BW]

Uday Reddy <address@hidden> writes:

> When I installed Sygate Personal Firewall on my Windows 98 machine,
> smtp mail-send from Emacs stopped working.  When I uninstalled Sygate,
> it worked again.  I am including a trace of messages from Emacs below.
> 
> ---------------
> mail to ?
> Sending...
> FQM: Message action (q, i, d, e, ?)? [queue]: 
> FQM: Immediate send...
> Mark set
> connection failed: socket operation on non-socket, smtp.blueyonder.co.uk, SMTP
> Auto-saving...
> connection failed: socket operation on non-socket, smtp.blueyonder.co.uk, SMTP
> ----------------

Maybe the firewall wants a rule. I have installed the Tiny Personal
Firewall Engine 2.0.15 and all works fine. For the firewall I have to
specify a outgoing rule:

  emacs.exe tcp/outgoing any port.

Harald