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Re: Continuing Mail problem

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In article <SalmonEgg-9AE0F4.09251012042011@news60.forteinc.com>,
 Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> In article <SalmonEgg-2548DE.10083910042011@news60.forteinc.com>,
>  Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > Some time ago, I posted that outgoing mail (using Apple Mail) sometimes 
> > hung indefinitely. Since then, it appears that Mail's Activity window 
> > now has a Stop sign that interrupts that hang. Nevertheless, the 
> > fundamental problem persists.
> > 
> > IIRC the problem often shows up upon replying to a received messag. I 
> > often do nothing but wait for the hang to time out. I then open the 
> > message from the Out Box and send from the message window. That usually 
> > works even if I have done nothing else. In other words, I do not think 
> > that I changed anything in the message to make it go.
> > 
> > Does anyone have clues?
> 
> It happened again. I am beginning to think that it only happens when I 
> reply to a message. This time, I replied to a message and used 
> cmd-shift-d to send as I usually do. After the message hung, I used the 
> activity window and its stop sign icon to stop the sending process. My 
> outgoing message appeared in the out box. Opening that message and using 
> the send icon, it got sent immediately.
> 
> One of my thoughts is:
> 
> It may depend upon the presence of attachments.
> 
> Bill
I don't see that you stated which internet provider you are using, but...
I had the same problem on AT&T with their yahoo SMTP server a while 
back. I'm pretty sure my issue was related to the port number, but I 
frankly didn't have time to diddle around with troublshooting it to h*ll 
and back. Finally I just switched back to my original old bellsouth.net 
server and now my outgoing mail works fine.
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Continuing Mail problem Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-04-10 10:08 -0700
  Re: Continuing Mail problem Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-04-10 18:56 -0700
  Re: Continuing Mail problem Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-04-12 09:25 -0700
    Re: Continuing Mail problem Suze <replytome@thenewsgroup.com> - 2011-04-13 06:25 -0500
      Re: Continuing Mail problem Suze <replytome@thenewsgroup.com> - 2011-04-13 14:21 -0500
    Re: Continuing Mail problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 10:52 +0000
      Re: Continuing Mail problem Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-04-14 08:40 -0700

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