Putting aside the mail aspect initially...
Why are you wanting a webserver at the practice, that can be seen throughout the NHS but not beyond. There are many possible reasons, but is that what you actually want...?
Tim
On 24 Apr 2010, at 21:11, Saul Galloway wrote:
> The long and steep learning curve in setting up a web server at the
> practice on the N3 network continues.
>
> Local PCT IT and BT have opened ports 80 and 443 for me which is good
> and the server and web pages are visible within NHS network only
> (which is according to plan so far).
>
> but ... the application I have developed uses email in placed to
> confirm/reset passwords etc. Normally this isn't a problem and I just
> set the application to use gmail as it's smtp server. However the
> ports to gmails smtp server are blocked by the router.
>
> Starting portqry.exe -n smtp.gmail.com -e 587 -p TCP ...
>
> Querying target system called:
>
> smtp.gmail.com
>
> Attempting to resolve name to IP address...
>
> Name resolved to 209.85.229.109
>
> querying...
>
> TCP port 587 (unknown service): FILTERED
> portqry.exe -n smtp.gmail.com -e 587 -p TCP exits with return code 0x00000002.
>
> Now I suppose I could simply ask BT to open that port, but I dont know
> if they would and it seem inelegant.
>
> I then tried using send.nhs.net with the same settings as my Outlook
> at work, i.e port 587 SSL but send.nhs.net doesn't like this from my
> new server. I tried it on telnet from the new webserver.
>
> 220 smtp.nhs.net service ready
> helo
> 250 smtp.nhs.net Hello [192.168.17.121]
> mail from: [log in to unmask]
> 530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated
>
> Connection to host lost.
>
> Press any key to continue...
>
> So now I'm thoroughly confuzzed
>
> server software is Win 2008 ( I had started in Ubuntu, but thats
> another story!!)
>
> any top tips from those in the know?
>
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