Hi,

 

In my Windows 2008 VPS I have opened the port 25 and 110 in my server Windows firewall. But it doesn't get working. Finally I found the SMTP service is not running on Services so I have started this server to get the port is working. But I couldn't find the services which is related to port 110 to enable it.

 

Can anyone guys please let me know how I get it work.

 

Thanks in advance.

have you port forwarded the ports? run a port check to see what state they are in

 

www.ping.eu

I have tested with www.ping.eu and the port 110 is not listening. But the port 25 is working.

 

Whether the port forward is needed to get work the required ports?

you will need to port forward unless you have a DMZ setup..

 

have you setup port forwarding for both ports? and what protocol are the ports? TCP, UDP?

I am newbie in windows. I am not sure what is the DMZ setup. Can you please explain in brief about this.

 

Nope. I haven't setup port forwarding for both ports. Both are tcp protocol. Also the port 25 is not working before I have started the SMTP service.

port 25 is SMTP.. and i know some VPS services dont actually require port forwaring.

 

just forward both ports to your server to start with...im not to familar with VPS but i can help you until it becomes an problem with the VPS config itself

Thanks for your help. Can you please explain how to forward the ports.

you need to access your router configuration? do u know how to do that??

 

what kind of router have you got

 

go to start, run (or in win7 vista etc its in the search box) type cmd

 

then type ipconfig /all and find your default gateway for your active question

 

now type that in your web browser..

 

ie.. http://192.168.0.1

I am not sure about this. I will contact our VPS provider about this.

haha ok im sure your VPS provider can do this from there end...

Before checking port forwarding, type on your windows server's command prompt:

 

netstat -an |find /i "listening"

 

Check if there's something which ends with ":110".

 

If not, tell me what program are you using as mailserver.