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Re: tidSMTP Socket Error 10061 while sending e-mail

Subject:Re: tidSMTP Socket Error 10061 while sending e-mail
Posted by:"Bill Edwards" (sdbgru..@hotmail.com)
Date:Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:18:28

This is possibly the result of an anti-virus scanner implementing a "port 25
blocking rule" to "prevent mass mailing worms from sending ...". In such a
case, it should be simply a matter of adding the application's name to a
list.

I ran into this situation with McAfee Virusscan Enterprise on WinXP -- their
website has a bulletin, KB42354.

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