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I found the service running on port 587. Why is that?
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I have installed the hub transport but the smtp service is not running. When I telnet to port 25 unable to connect
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I have installed the hub transport but the smtp service is not running. When I telnet to port 25 unable to connect

exchange SMTP service

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Exchange

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Windows Server 2008

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