Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:25:56 -0600 From: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Having some problems with a FreeBSD mail server (SMTP) Message-ID: <200807312225.57211.af300wsm@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c8f2f0$3a49ff60$72010c0a@wbt.wbtsystems.com> References: <200807301835.17740.af300wsm@gmail.com> <000801c8f2f0$3a49ff60$72010c0a@wbt.wbtsystems.com>
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On Thursday 31 July 2008 03:31:36 Barry Byrne wrote: > > Andrew: > > I've seen a similar problem from time to time with Outlook 2003 clients. > For seemingly no reason whatsoever, they give a timeout sending mail. > Googling the error code throws up many with the same error and no solution > that I've found. Telneting to port 25 or even running the Outlook test mail > account feature still work, while Outlook comlains it can't send. > > The workaround is to quit Outlook and start again. By quitting Outlook, the > user must choose 'exit' from the 'file' menu. Simply closing the close box > still leaves Outlook in memory and the problem remains. The problem seems > to happen perhaps once or twice a month for some users. > > Regards, > > Barry To everyone who responded, Thanks for the great suggestions. A couple of you replied that they've seen issues with this and resolved them by closing down Outlook, by the "File --> Exit" method rather than the "X" in the upper right. I'm really beginning to suspect this because the pastor I was working with told me that our senior pastor explained to him that he could send from a particular coffee shop in town when he couldn't from church. Though I can't personally see a down side to having an office in a Starbucks (I don't know the name of the actual shop they were in), I think that the Outlook client get's some bad stuff in the cache that is flushed out when they shutdown their computers to go make the journey. The pastor I was dealing with said he went there and all of this mail sent without a hitch. The other possibility is that the ISP is blocking some particular port. We did just change ISP's within the last 2 weeks and according to this pastor, these sending problems originated at that time. We'll see. Andy
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