Norton Personal Firewall 2003 - Outlook XP Problem

HI,

I'm using Norton Personal Firewall 2003 as a firewall on my system. I set this up before I installed Outlook. For some reason I can't send emails from outlook but I can receive them fine.

I keep on getting this error in Outlook:

Task 'Justin - Sending and Receiving' reported error (0x8004210B) : 'The operation timed out waiting for a response from the sending (SMTP) server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).'

If I turn off Norton, I can receive and send no problem.

Has anyone encountered this problem and been able to resolve it??

Many Thanks

Justin

 

Got any rules in NPF relating to Outlook? If not, add 'em manually as I've seen it mentioned that NIS doesn't always deliver a prompt to create a rule when Outlook tries to connect thus leaving it as a blocked application.

 

I had NPF installed with XP Pro and had more problems than it was worth. Even after sending and receiveing numerous emails from Norton Tech Support, it was never resolved. I gave up in the end when I read on other forums the same trouble. Try Zone Alarm, it's far easier to configure and XP likes it!

 

Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

I took the rules already set for Outlook out and re-added Outlook with a 'Permit All' rule, but the problem still occurs.

I'm running:
Windows 2000 Server
Outlook XP
Norton Personal Firewall

You'll notice Win2k Server above - I don't actually serve any sites from my machine, but I bought Win2k Server because I'm a freelance Internet Developer and I needed the stability and IIS functionality that Win2k Server allows. I just needed a firewall to protect this machine. Thing is I kind of need to stick with Norton now I've bought it, I've used ZoneAlarm Pro previously but it caused me a lot of problems.

Thanks

Justin

 

Hello Justin

Got your message from other forum!

I have used many different firewalls but not Norton!

You are right about ZA in ver 3.0 but 2.6 is solid and likes 2000!

Mithrandrir I have never activated it but with XP I will probably try the built in XP firewall when I do! I understand it is the Tiny engine and there are utilities to give greater control of it than MicroSoft allows!

Brett did you play with it any before you went NPF! What did you think of it if so?

I would say Newt will know about this! I have heard him mention NPF and help others with it! Course he may be Carp fishing today!

Good luck,

Mike

 

Sorry, Mike, I missed your post. Did I play with what? The XP firewall? BTW, I don't use NPF!

 

Hi Brett

Sorry! I thought you used the NPF!

Yes my question was have you tested/tinkered with the XP fire wall!

I understand that it is in fact the TINY engine, and that MS did not give much control but there are utilities to access all features of the TINY engine!

I just have so much going on that I haven't gotten around to it yet!

I use Zone alarm 2.x personally (don't like 3.0) behind a router also, so I would not use the XP firewall myself anyway! Cain't anyway at home because I use win2k!

But I have XP at the office, one of my 3 personal work stations is XP and a few others in the network!

I am more interested for my clients that may need a more basic firewall that is better than nothing!

The Tiny is OK! I used it for a while on a work station!

How is the weather at Isle of Man, do you live by the beach? Smile!

Mike

 

Mike - I have yet to "upgrade" to XP so have little experience of ICF. However, AFAIK, it's not based on the TPF engine and is more akin to an IDS than a PF; indeed, MS stated that their goal in developing ICF was to "to provide a baseline intrusion prevention mechanism in the Windows® XP operating system. " That said, you might find the information here quite interesting (in particular, check out the "BIND-PE/CHX-I Packet Filter Configuration" links at the foot of the page).

BTW - I use TPF's successor, Kerio.

The weather? Grim! We've recently had the heaviest rainfall in 50 years and only now is the floodwater beginning to drain away! On the Isle of Man, everybody lives near to a beach - it's only 12 miles wide

 

Look here, this may having a bearing on the outlook problem.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php?board=24;action=display;threadid=4658

Regards - Charles