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Posted: 16 January 2010 at 10:59am | IP Logged Quote skippy76

If you attempt to connect to a Non SMTP port, e.g. the TLS port of Gmail (smtp.gmail.com on port 465), the component never times out the connection.

Therefore, I believe that there either needs to:

a) Implement a ConnectionTimeout setting that expires if the server does not get the 220 response from the SMTP server

or

b)  The overall connection timeout that exists should disconnect if the 220 is not received.

personally, I believe that (a) should be impelemented.  This is the way most client / server interactions are managed and indeed other SMTP components also function. 

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Posted: 16 February 2010 at 11:38am | IP Logged Quote igor
Connection timeout works the same, regardless whether specified port is standard SMTP (25) or not. It depends on Winsock timeout implementation for a particular OS/platform.

Also, please keep in mind, that your antivirus, firewall or any other packet-filtering software may interfere: there are many implementations that don't close socket connection properly when blocking it, leaving socket "hanging" in undefined state. Socket (connection) timeout will not work in this case.
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