Operation timed out waiting for a response from the sending (SMTP) server

JdS · #1 01-Apr-2004, 07:14

Say Allowee, may be you can help me: I CAN'T send emails now! I use Outlook 2003 and run the tests and everything seems fine but I still have emails in the OUTBOX.

I did change the settings "Use LAN" instead of "I/E or 3rd party dialer" thingy but still nothing!

Allowee · #2 01-Apr-2004, 07:19

hmm, I have always used a router with dhcp, Windows detected that connection and assigned an IP and everything worked, no dailer messages..

I don't think you want to do this, but you can try to delete all dailup accounts, reboot and see if it works, but I'm sure if that causes trouble

JdS · #3 01-Apr-2004, 07:42

I am sitting here with an urgent reply to ******** and my damn email is broke! I feel SO stupid right now.

Allowee · #4 01-Apr-2004, 07:59

you might be able to webmail it..

is there an option in Outlook so that you can take a look for errors?
maybe your isp is blocking port 25, you can try your isp's smtp server, if you don't already use that

dsmith · #5 01-Apr-2004, 08:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by JdS

I am sitting here with an urgent reply to ******* and my damn email is broke! I feel SO stupid right now.

J, if you need something urgent, I can relay the message through my server. I would need to add your ip address to my relay-domains on my mail server and then you should be able to tell it to use mail.dbcservices.com and it will relay it. Depending on who/what you are using for mail this may be your problem. You probably have a new IP address with broadband and relaying may be denied through it on your mail server. Let me know, this is pretty simple to do.

JdS · #6 01-Apr-2004, 08:20

OK, what do I have to do to use my own mail server e.g. mail.desilva.biz?

dsmith · #7 01-Apr-2004, 08:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by JdS

OK, what do I have to do to use my own mail server e.g. mail.desilva.biz?

I am linux-based, so this may not be exactly right for you, but if follows the same principle. All mail-servers should deny relaying by default for any address, due to the wonderful world of spammers. In sendmail, I have it set up to read a file called /etc/mail/relay-domains. Any domain that I put in this file will be relayed. This file is really simple

Code:

192.168.1. #Relay all in this domain
208.186.200.200 #Relay for this single address

This may or may not help you depending on what you are using. Is your mail getting bounced with a relaying denied error? If so, than this is the root of your problem,

JdS · #8 01-Apr-2004, 08:32

No, it's not getting bounced or anything like that. It's just not sending, not even to the mail servers of my broadband ISP! How odd is that? I would copy the error message but it doesn't seem to be CTRL-C friendly so I'd have to type out the entire message.

I am on the line with support but I am on hold forever...

JdS · #9 01-Apr-2004, 08:36

here's is what I am getting: 0x8004210B more details - http://www.google.com/search?q=0x800...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Allowee · #10 01-Apr-2004, 08:41

there's a message that says it does send the email, try emailing yourself..

also it seems to be ssl related, have you enabled ssl modes? can you access https://google.com/

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Operation timed out waiting for a response from the sending (SMTP) server

Error: 0x8004210B