XFOR: SMTP Service Continuously Attempts to Reconnect to Remote ServerID: q222885
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If the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service (Smtpsvc.dll) connects to a remote server, but the remote server ends the connection before sending a 220 response, the SMTP service may continuously attempt to reconnect to the remote server instead of attempting to send the message at a later time. While the SMTP service attempts to reconnect, you are able to send other SMTP messages successfully.
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0. For additional information, please see the following article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Commercial Internet System version 2.0.
This problem was first corrected in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5.
Additional query words:
Keywords : nt4sp5fix
Version : winnt:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug
Last Reviewed: May 5, 1999