X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: exim-4.50-1: SMTP sending fails with "Software caused connection abort" Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:47:20 -0000 Message-ID: <004001c6478f$57afeb00$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 14 March 2006 15:18, Adrian Lanz wrote: > On 14 Jul 2005, seh@panix wrote: > >> >> [I sent this earlier this morning via gmane, but it has yet to reach >> the list. I apologize if a duplicate arrives later.] Do you need to re-ack the autoresponder by any chance? >> Is this a known problem? What additional information can I provide >> to help troubleshoot this problem? > > Hi, I have the exactly same problem, and was not able to google a > solution. After quite some time of testing I found a (partial) > solution, which seems worth documenting in this list (also, it might > not be a Cygwin problem). > > On my Windows 2000 system, the solution is to (temporarily) turn off > the On-Access VirsusScan (McAfee, ver. 8). Similar symptoms and a > failure for mail delivery occurs also using the smtpmail library under > Cygwins's Gnu Emacs and under Windows native EmacsW32 (CVS > version). Turning off virus scan, solves all these test cases. > > No idea, however, what the real problem is ... You put your finger right on it when you said > McAfee *That* is the real problem! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/