email: "port 25 in use" ...? help!!

[Datagg]

Yeah, that was me, I hate spam would not work. I eventually gor on the phone with sunbelt (makers of ihatespam) and there was no way to make it work. So with that beiing said, I did a refund on the program and now use spampal. Much better in the long run. 30 day return on ihatespam if ya bought it, i would suggest a return on it.

fyi:Spampal works great,been using it now for about 2 months, i can honestly say that 98 percent of  junk is filtered. And I do lots of submissions and stuff, so lots of junk. Spampal takes it all and puts it into the spam box. Its an awesome program and i highly reccomend it.

[Jazhawk]

Thanx for the endorsement datagg.  I'm going to load er up in a few minutes.

I'll keep you posted.

-Jazhawk

[Norbert]

I'm having the same problem (with port 25 being used).

It only seems to affect outgoing messages though, so that's not too bad. But still, it would be nice to get it all straightened out.

I'm running W2K, with Outlook 2003 and SpamEater.

The confusing thing is that even though the documentation says to change your mail client settings to point to 127... mine still has the original settings in there, and it's working fine (and yes, incoming mail gets scanned—I tested it).
So both, Outlook and SpamEater point to my original mail servers, and Avast gives me an Outlook plugin info when I start up Outlook.

So - what's the best thing to straighten things out here?
Should I point Outlook and SpamEater to localhost? Or leave Outlook alone (because of the Avast plugin) and only change SpamEater? Or do I need to use a different port number altogether?

[Norbert]

P.S. Looks like IIS was the culprit...
It automatically starts an SMTP process as a sub-service, and that one was hogging port 25.
Once I disabled the process, avast started fine.

[Jazhawk]

I just switched over the SpamPal and avoided Avast altogether.  SpamPal works pretty well so far and the best part of it, it's free.

-Jazhawk

[Culpeper]

I like spam pal too.  I only use the DSBL and SpamCop public blacklists (within spampal) and they catch almost all my spam.

[Jazhawk]

I like spam pal too.  I only use the DSBL and SpamCop public blacklists (within spampal) and they catch almost all my spam.

I think it was you who turned me onto SpamPal in the first place.  I'm not real clear as to what DSBL is or how it works.

-Jazhawk

[Culpeper]

Spampal uses public blacklists in it's settings.  DSBL is one of them.  You can access Spam Pal settings by double clicking the umbrella.

[Jazhawk]

Spampal uses public blacklists in it's settings.  DSBL is one of them.  You can access Spam Pal settings by double clicking the umbrella.

Is it used by default?

-Jazhawk

[Culpeper]

I think DSBL is used by default.  Which ones do you have set?

[Jazhawk]

Whatever the default is set to.  Whatever it is, it's working for me so far.

-Jazhawk

[Culpeper]

They've added Spamhaus which a local ISP in my area uses.  I think it sucks.  I'm not using Spamhaus through Spampal because of that.   I think Spamhaus has too many false positives.

[Jazhawk]

Thanx for the heads up.  Spam is drama in itself and I don't need for their to be an additional layer of drama in my inbox.

-Jazhawk