Re: Faulty Port 25 (SMTP)?!?!

Thank you Steve for your interesting input!

I just checked it up and noticed that this first square "Mail" was already
enabled...and this must have been activated for many months by now!
So this could have been possibly the cause of making my OE "flaky"
(as you stated) by producing huge logfiles (for sure); ha!?
Hence, I disabled it now and made an immediate new test...but...

Steve, could you please tell me now WHERE those logfiles are being
automatically stored, so that I could check them up for possible hints?

Thanks!
Philippe B.
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"Steve Cochran" <scochran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I don't have a clue. But you can enable SMTP logging under Tools | Options
>| Maintenance to check and see if you can figure out anything from the
>logfile. Make sure you turn it back off again afterwards. Otherwise the
>logfile gets huge and OE also can get flaky.
>
> steve
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> "Philippe B. [Switzerland]" <borel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
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> Whenever I sent out an email, the data trickles only sporadic out (ie.
> the blue screen of my network card does not light up continuously
> until mail is sent out, but lights on and off all the time, taking about
> 10 times longer to finally sent out such email than on my other PC,
> where this incident does not occur! Therefore, the fault cannot be
> at my standard SMTP mail server I'm using.
>
> Since I don't have anymore an active virus scan on this PC involved, it
> cannot be the cause of this extreme delay. I noticed also that the green
> progressing bar does NOT appear at all and the arrow out from the
> basket is NOT moving (during such transmission mode). It's only at
> the very end when such mail finally goes out that this bar will show
> up at once...then completely and correctly filled up from left to right!
>
> And I also tried to use different email programs (such as Netscape),
> but the same fault occurs.
>
> So it seems that "somehow" the data-flow passing through this Port 25
> is getting "squeezed" at one stage, prior of passing at the end through
> my (fast) cable modem; but where's/who's the "culprit" along its path??
> And do note too: Even if I use my old 56k-modem, same problem.
>
> And even if I use a different Port# (ie. after having installed first
> a special sw-program for outgoing emails)...no change at all (!).
>
> Hence, any valid feedback would be highly appreciated;
> thank you very much in advance...
>
> Best regards,
> Philippe B.



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