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Possible cause for "Eudora got tired of waiting for the server"?

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Gilles

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Aug 23, 2014, 9:00:18 AM8/23/14
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Hello

Using the exact same e-mail profile that works the rest of the time,
occasionally, some outgoing e-mails aren't being sent and triggers a
timeout:

"Error reading from network
Eudora got tired of waiting for the server. (10100)"

I suspect my ISP blacklists some e-mails or domains (although
blacklisting the whole of yahoo.com seems improbable), hence the
timeout.

Is there a way to investigate, eg. installing a proxy on my Windows
host between Eudora the Interweb?

Thank you.

Gilles

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Aug 24, 2014, 7:52:55 PM8/24/14
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:00:18 +0200, Gilles <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>Is there a way to investigate, eg. installing a proxy on my Windows
>host between Eudora the Interweb?

Based on this document�
www.eudora.com/techsupport/ini.html#Heading12


I closed Eudora, added the following to eudora.ini, restarted Eudora
and tried sending the e-mail again:

[Debug]
LogLevel=1

Unfortunately, Eudora didn't append anything to eudora.log.

Why won't it send an e-mail to jd...@yahoo.com isn't being sent?

Thank you.

Gilles

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Aug 24, 2014, 8:02:28 PM8/24/14
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 01:52:55 +0200, Gilles <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>[Debug]
>LogLevel=1

Problem solved when using 127 instead: Turns out my ISP's outgoing
SMTP server (wrongly) thinks that the email I'm trying to send to
someone @yahoo.com is SPAM.

Sorry for the confusion.
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Gilles

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Aug 29, 2014, 5:10:10 PM8/29/14
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:36:48 +0000, Jim Higgins
<this_...@is.invalid> wrote:
>Eudora has a bug when it comes to logging. It doesn't log outgoing
>mail (LogLevel=1). You might try LogLevel=96. That will log all
>outgoing and all incoming bytes.
>
>Then you inspect the crapload of stuff in the log looking for the chit
>chat between Eudora and the mail server to see if Eudora even tried to
>send and if so why the server didn't accept it.

Thanks Jim, but the problem is solved: Turns out my ISP's SMTP had a
CRLF issue so Eudora wouldn't display the error message (which was
that the server mistakenly thought some of my outgoing e-mails were
SPAM).
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