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Mail not delivered: 'Error receiving data - empty string received' message received
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06 Mar 2010 12:28 PM  
Hi.

I just set up the ArGoSoft Mail Server Free, but are not able to send messages. The connection between the server and the mail program (Outlook 2003) looks OK, but in the log i do get en ERROR: Error receiving data -empty string received. My PC is behind a router and a firewall, but I have opened port 25 both in the PC firewall and in the router.

Please help?

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06 Mar 2010 12:34 PM  
Lars:

Can you post the part of the log that shows the complete transaction?

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06 Mar 2010 12:57 PM  
Hi.

Here from the log:

[SYST XXXXXX 06-03-2010 18:48:40] Starting the smtp service at 0.0.0.0:25
[SYST XXXXXX 06-03-2010 18:48:41] smtp service started
[SYST XXXXXX 06-03-2010 18:48:41] Starting the pop3 service at 0.0.0.0:110
[SYST XXXXXX 06-03-2010 18:48:41] pop3 service started
[SYST XXXXXX 06-03-2010 18:48:41] Starting delivery service
[SYST XXXXXX 06-03-2010 18:48:41] Delivery service started
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] Received SMTP connection from 127.0.0.1
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 220 Hallo ArGoSoft Mail Server Freeware v.1.0.0.3 at Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:49:59 GMT
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] EHLO dell
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 250-Welcome 127.0.0.1, nice to meet you...
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 250-AUTH=LOGIN
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 250-AUTH LOGIN
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 250-ETRN
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 250 HELP
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] AUTH LOGIN
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] TGFycw==
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] MjczYXlycw==
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 235 Authentication successful
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] MAIL FROM:
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 250 Sender "lha-h@online.no" OK...
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] RCPT TO:
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 250 Recipient siddisen@gmail.com OK
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] DATA
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:49:59] 250 Message accepted for delivery
[SYST XXXXXX 06-03-2010 18:50:01] Launching delivery thread 0. From: lha-h@online.no, to: siddisen@gmail.com, Attempts: 0, Uid: 8ee6a66659cc4aa4a4a9d406a1ad5d2d
[DLVR 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:01] Delivering item 8ee6a66659cc4aa4a4a9d406a1ad5d2d
[DLVR 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:01] Resolving MX records for domain gmail.com
[DLVR 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:01] Retrieved 5 MX records for domain gmail.com
[DLVR 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:01] Delivering mail from lha-h@online.no to siddisen@gmail.com using exchanger gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:02] QUIT
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:02] 221 Goodbye
[SMTP 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:02] SMTP connection with 127.0.0.1 ended
[DLVR 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:22] ERROR: Error receiving data - empty string received
[DLVR 000000 06-03-2010 18:50:22] Will try next exchanger

As far as I can see, all goes well for many lines. But what about the line "354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself "?

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06 Mar 2010 02:58 PM  
Lars: It looks like your computer cannot send anything out on port 25... It took 21 seconds for the program to finally get the "error receiving data"....

from that computer can you "telnet gmail-smtp-in.1.google.com 25"? to see if yu can manually connect to their server....

sounds like it's timing out waiting for a response, getting none..

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06 Mar 2010 04:24 PM  
Hi.

Telnet'ing the host reveals "Can't open a connection to host at port 25. And the same goes for other mail adresses. And I do have the same problem on another PC, not behind a router.

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06 Mar 2010 04:30 PM  
Lars:
It sounds like that's your real problem... Possibly your ISP is capturing traffic going on on port 25?

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06 Mar 2010 04:44 PM  
Stange, that happends to both my ISPs, telenor.no and get.no

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06 Mar 2010 04:50 PM  
Lars:
If your ISP is not allowing you to send port 25 traffic to another server (in other words, only allowing you to send port 25 traffic to their server), you're kind of out of luck.. You'll have to set up argosoft to relay through your ISP's server.

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06 Mar 2010 04:55 PM  
But, how, is that possible?

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08 Mar 2010 01:08 PM  
Lars:
I don't have the free version, so I can only tell you how it works in mine... Under "tools" I have an "alternate delivery", where I can select "smart server", and enter the address of the alternate server, and login information. If you ISP is not allowing you to communicate directly with other servers over port 25, you may have to set it up to transfer the emails to your ISP's email server.

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08 Mar 2010 02:53 PM  
Thanks.
Then I drop using ArGoSoft. I wanted to use it when sending mail from the command line using "Blat" mail client, but that worked OK using the mail server from my homepage on port 26.
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