hanging while sending mail

hanging while sending mail

[Alfred J Correira]

Setup: Gnus 5.10.6; Emacs 21.3 on WinXP.

About a week ago, my outgoing mail started hanging
after I typed ^C^C to send it (feedmail-send-it).
I noticed that the mail was sent (because I would
get a copy, if I was Cced, the next time I fetched
mail) but I wouldn't get the "done" message nor a
copy of the outgoing message in my Gcc folder;
instead, I had to ^G out and kill the message
buffer to return control to Gnus.

After poking around a bit in the code and
reviewing the SMTP trace buffer ...  I'm hanging
at the end of smtpmail-via-smtp: the "QUIT" is
sent and processed, but the succeeding call to
smtpmail-read-response never returns (it just
churns away in the while loop looking for a "\r\n"
that it never receives): if I comment out that
last call to smtpmail-read-response, of course,
the delete-process at the end of smtpmail-via-smtp
runs, I get my "done" and my Gcc copy, etc..  I
suppose I can live with that, since I don't need
the final return value from smtpmail-read-response
and the delete-process should take care of any
leftover output from the SMTP server, but ...

Now, my ISP claims "no changes on its end" and
it's hard to say "No Way" since my wife uses the
same ISP SMTP server on her laptop (with Outlook
as her MUA).  But, then again, I haven't changed
anything on my end, either ...

I'm open to any suggestions at this point ...

-- 
Alfred Correira     Correira@Flash.Net     Alfred@FireantRanch.Com
---
Law Can Never Make Us As Secure
As We Are When We Do Not Need It.
-- Alexander M. Bickel

Re: hanging while sending mail

[Kai Grossjohann]

correira@flash.net (Alfred J Correira) writes:

> After poking around a bit in the code and
> reviewing the SMTP trace buffer ...  I'm hanging
> at the end of smtpmail-via-smtp: the "QUIT" is
> sent and processed, but the succeeding call to
> smtpmail-read-response never returns (it just
> churns away in the while loop looking for a "\r\n"
> that it never receives): if I comment out that
> last call to smtpmail-read-response, of course,
> the delete-process at the end of smtpmail-via-smtp
> runs, I get my "done" and my Gcc copy, etc..  I
> suppose I can live with that, since I don't need
> the final return value from smtpmail-read-response
> and the delete-process should take care of any
> leftover output from the SMTP server, but ...

What happens when you speak SMTP manually, with telnet?

Kai