Thursday, 25 February 2010

Blown PC Update #4 - Final

Like I said, this was a whole new learning experience for me. I've learned all about SMTP and Port blocking. So, where were we. The new PC was sort of working with the new email account settings, whereas it was working perfectly before. So I decided to put the old hard disk back in my Linux machine to have a look what the settings were. However, Mr Microsoft was having none of it. The activation time for the XP license on the drive had expired so it wouldn't let me log in. Great, the XP Pro trick described earlier doesn't work because this is XP Home. Great. But all was not lost.I rebooted the PC while holding down F5, excellent! Its still boots into Safe Mode! This was enough for me to view the old email account settings. The answer was kind of obvious, but there was no reason for me to know before hand. The old email setting point to wanadoo servers! I did try this from my PC but it would never have worked due to Port 25 blocking by Sky..........!

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