Thanks Jacob. It looks like there was an SMTPW already running -- I thought the server had shutdown when the license expired, but it looked the SMTPW process was still running. Once I killed that, the server started up fine. Thanks again, Jim -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jacob Haller Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:15 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Error message on startup of server >Folks, >I just installed a new LAK on a trial version of the LISTSERV 14.4, and >when I went to restart the server I get: > >>>> Unable to create SMTP synchonization events <<<< > >And the server will not start. >Any ideas here?? It was working fine before the new year. That error typically means that something is binding to port 25 of the LISTSERV server, preventing LISTSERV from doing so and therefore from starting. IIS SMTP is a common culprit here. This also sometimes appears if you start LISTSERV in console mode and, while it is running this way, you try to start the LISTSERV service. -- Jacob Haller, Technical Support, L-Soft international, Inc LISTSERV (R) is a registered trademark of L-Soft. Support is available 9:00-18:00 ET, Monday-Friday except on the following holidays: <http://www.lsoft.com/resources/holidays.asp> All of our manuals are available for download at <http://www.lsoft.com/resources/manuals.asp> ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this e-mail message, and any attachment thereto, is confidential and may not be disclosed without our express permission. If you are not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message, or any attachment thereto, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us by telephone, fax or e-mail and delete the message and all of its attachments. Thank you. Every effort is made to keep our network free from viruses. You should, however, review this e-mail message, as well as any attachment thereto, for viruses. We take no responsibility and have no liability for any computer virus which may be transferred via this e-mail message.