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From: George Dew <gdew@rni1.com>
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Subject: From Outlook Client to Sendmail: "A timeout occurred while communicating with the server"
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>Number:         35552
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       From Outlook Client to Sendmail: "A timeout occurred while communicating with the server"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 05 00:40:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Tue Mar 5 03:43:19 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Tue Mar 05 03:47:44 PST 2002
>Originator:     George Dew
>Release:        4.4
>Organization:
Response Networking
>Environment:
Outlook on Windows 98 machine connecting to Sendmail on the BSD server.
>Description:
      The problem arises from a Windows client trying to Send/receive mail from Sendmail running on the BSD server.  It was working fine and suddenly stopped one day.  Nothing was reconfigured.  I'm also running SMB on the server, but SMB has been extremely stable.

Please help!
>How-To-Repeat:
      
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: dwmalone 
State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 5 03:43:19 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
This isn't really a bug report, it is more of a help request, which 
should be send to questions@freebsd.org. 

I'd suggest that you begin by checking your sendmail log file to 
see if you are getting connections from the windows machine. Try 
using telnet on the windows machine to connect to port 25 (smtp) 
or 110 (pop3) to check if the windows machine can connect. Try 
running "tcpdump host name.of.windows.machine" and watching the 
traffic it produces. 

I've recently seen Outlook XP on Windows XP claim that it can't 
connect to one mail server (of three listed), but it wasn't actually 
sending any packets to the server. Rebooting Windows seemed to fix 
the problem. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35552 
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