[pmmail-list] pm mail and Norton 2004

[Ding-A-Ling]

Wednesday March 24 2004 16:58, Tim Roberts wrote to All:

 >> SS> The 10061 error is common for all mailers - it's a mail server
 >> SS> problem. For us at the uni, this error code is common in the
 >>
 >> Do we ever have concepts mixed up! Mailers, mail clients and mail
 >> servers are all different animals, and also have their
 >> individual/unique error codes.
 >>

 TR> In this case, it is "none of the above".  10061 is a Winsock 
 TR> socket
 TR> error which means "connection refused".  It IS "common for all
 TR> mailers", and it is "a mail server problem".  I would say the 
 TR> original

A Winsock error does not pinpoint it to be a server problem. It just 
means Winsock can't connect to the server - for whatever reason 
(misconfiguration, missing connection, server down etc...), and an 
*email client* (not mailer) reports the error.

 KS

   KARICO Business Services
   Toronto, ON Canada
   http://www.karico.ca
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