Here’s my Outlook Express error message (in Dutch ;-))

De server heeft de verbinding onverwachts afgebroken. Mogelijke oorzaken zijn problemen met de server, netwerkproblemen of te lange inactiviteit. Onderwerp ‘fdfssd’, Account: ‘mail.chello.nl’, Server: ‘127.0.0.1’, Protocol: SMTP, Poort: 25, Beveiligd(SSL): Nee, Foutnummer: 0x800CCC0F

and a part of the aswMaiSv.log:
09/27/04 10:41:39: --SMTP Mail is clean
09/27/04 10:42:42: SendTimeout error 10054(0x00002746)
09/27/04 10:42:42: RecvTimeout error 10054(0x00002746)

stopping the mail service doesn’t make much of a difference:
09/27/04 10:45:54: --SMTP Mail not tested
09/27/04 10:47:10: SendTimeout error 10054(0x00002746)
09/27/04 10:47:10: RecvTimeout error 10054(0x00002746)

I have tried sending an e-mail with:

  • PDF attachment of about 200kb
  • Word DOC attachment of about 120kb
  • TXT attachment of 5 bytes !!
    This all generated the same error.

What does work however is an e-mail with about 1.3Mb of this:
testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttest etc…
Just 1.3Mb text and no attachment. This seems to be working fine.

So it seems there is a problem with sending attachments unrelated to their size.
I enabled the E-mail server communication log in Outlook Express, or at least I thought I did, as I checked the box. However I can’t find any log file on my hard disk generated by OE. According to the help file it should be named smtp.log. I searched for ‘smtp’ and ‘log’ but couldn’t find what I was looking for.