From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 09:31:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8981065671 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:31:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from hermes.wbtsystems.com (hermes.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A958FC17 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:31:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from SUNYA (sunya.wbt.wbtsystems.com [10.12.1.114]) by hermes.wbtsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CFE70F741D; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:31:31 +0100 (IST) From: "Barry Byrne" To: "'Andrew Falanga'" , "'FreeBSD Questions'" References: <200807301835.17740.af300wsm@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:31:36 +0100 Message-ID: <000801c8f2f0$3a49ff60$72010c0a@wbt.wbtsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <200807301835.17740.af300wsm@gmail.com> Thread-Index: AcjypYl5aw7oN+FBREqyu+rIyeWh6gASc4Ww X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Cc: Subject: RE: Having some problems with a FreeBSD mail server (SMTP) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:31:34 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Andrew Falanga > I run a mail server for my church. Today I was called that > folks are able to > receive, but not send their mail. They are all currently > configured for POP3 > (I use dovecot). > > At home I tried to send mail to two different e-mail accounts > of mine using > the church e-mail server and was successful. I used KMail for this. > > As I look through /var/log/maillog I do not even see > authid= > in the mail log (I'm using TLS with sendmail). One of the > pastor's told me > the error he's seeing is "timeout." They are using Outlook, > I'm not sure of > the version. What problems do people here usually encounter > with Outlook > mail clients and their SMTP servers? "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" 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