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To test SMTP has started on the server that runs the SMTP service, you can run the basic tests that are listed in this article and verify that you receive the 220 response from the remote server. For example, when do telnet mail.chicahotech.net 25, you may receive:

" 220 mail.chicahotech.net Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.21 1 ready at Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:47:00 -0600" if the SMTP is running. If not, you may receive this message:

"Connecting To mail.chicahotech.net...Could not open connection to the host, on port 110: Connect failed"
 

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