Windows 7

[brk-lnt]

I've also been a VMWare/virtualization user for years.

VMWare works pretty good overall, the biggest part of the performance seems to be related to how much physical memory you have and how you partition up amongst the virtual machines.

At the base level, all of the machines (real or virtual) are competing for a fixed set of resources (RAM, HDD, CPU), so uses where the overall load is light work best. I wouldn't try to run a processor intensive rendering application in a VM, unless there was no concern for the other machines. Same thing for HDD intensive apps, like maybe a streaming backup server that is going to be chugging a lot of data to disk.

For most normal day-to-day applications, a properly tuned VM is almost indistinguishable from a regular machine. My personal experience is that OS X and Linux host's tend to edge out Windows machines for the host in terms of overall performance and flexibility.

Virtualbox, xen and Parallels are other alternatives to VMWare.

[SIKSUKR]

Just tried port 1025 and can't get that to work either. A box pops up and asks for my username and password and it keeps coming back to that box after entering the correct names. Don, I'm definately not on Metro. As I've said in past posts, I've had no problems for months and nothing has changed from a provider standpoint or my settings. It just stopped sending one day.

[Lakes Region PCs]

It has to be something on Fairpoints end, after a quick google search, you're not the only one having email problems with these guys. Have you called them yet and have them run a log while you're trying to login and send a message? I can't think of anything else it could be......but on their end.

Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

Just tried port 1025 and can't get that to work either. A box pops up and asks for my username and password and it keeps coming back to that box after entering the correct names. Don, I'm definately not on Metro. As I've said in past posts, I've had no problems for months and nothing has changed from a provider standpoint or my settings. It just stopped sending one day.

[SIKSUKR]

Thanks LR PC for the feedback. I have not called them mainly because 4 others on the same server have not had one problem. My problem started shortly after buying a new pc with vista and Googling this setup tells me I'm not alone. I do have an alternate app now so I have not been expending much effort. I will contact Fairpoint to see if they can help but I really suspect it's with my Vista. The other 2 on the server use versions of XP.

[brk-lnt]

Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

Thanks LR PC for the feedback. I have not called them mainly because 4 others on the same server have not had one problem. My problem started shortly after buying a new pc with vista and Googling this setup tells me I'm not alone. I do have an alternate app now so I have not been expending much effort. I will contact Fairpoint to see if they can help but I really suspect it's with my Vista. The other 2 on the server use versions of XP.

To be clear, the *error* message is from Fairpoint's server indicating that they didn't like the format of the email message being sent out.

Your mail client (some form of Outlook, I assume) is the program that is actually constructing the email message (headers and all the other bits you don't commonly see from a user perspective) and sending it to the Fairpoint server for delivery.

It's impossible to tell from the information posted which end is the one with the real issue (is Fairpoint rejecting a standards-compliant email message, or is Outlook doing something wrong).

I would still call Fairpoint first, even though it is *probably* some setting on your PC. They have most likely gotten this problem from a lot of users and know what you need to do/change to make it all work.