Help with exim! Outlook doing SMTP through a local exim sometimes hangs...

[Andrew DeFaria]

Chuck Ocheret wrote:

> So I have exim working fantastically with various user agents. 
> However, I'm having an intermittent problem with Outlook where it 
> hangs while trying to send mail out through exim. I don't want to go 
> off-topic by talking about Outlook but I figure that enough people 
> must use exim out there that someone may have seen this before.
>
> In Outlook I set up 'localhost' as an outgoing SMTP server. I turn on 
> secure password authentication and provide my username and password (I 
> found that if I didn't do authentication Outlook would timeout trying 
> to speak to exim). Sometimes outgoing mail works great. Other times it 
> times out (especially if there is more than one message waiting to be 
> sent).
>
> Oh, and after one of these hangs, I get the following message in the 
> exim_main.log file.
>
> 2003-02-17 21:48:23 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP 
> command from (turbo) [127.0.0.1]
>
> Any help would be appreciated. I'm not an exim/sendmail guru and am 
> not sure how to debug the situation.

You might try turning off "secure" authentication. You might try asking 
over at exim.org.



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