Forums: Could not connect to smtp host

(Salteh) #1

There appears to be a slight problem with the forums at the moment… If you reply to a thread in which someone has enabled ‘notify me when a reply is posted’, you will be present with a nice error:

Could not connect to smtp host : 10060 : A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

Please don’t press F5 / Refresh, just use the ‘general discussion’ link or press the back button in your browser( to avoid double posts ). Despite the error, your message does get posted :slight_smile:

(Chruker) #2

Yeah, I’m gettting this error too. The last two replies I’ve made resulted in that error. And this one probably does too.

(Chruker) #3

And this one probably does too.

Nope it didn’t

(EB) #4

I usually get the error:

:tapir:

(Wils) #5

Test post

[edit: ergh, that’s quite broken]

(nUllSkillZ) #6

Happens from time to time.
I’ve also experienced it today.

(psyco_mario) #7

Had it loads today, i acciendtly posted about 20 times in 1 topic and had to spend ages deleting all the posts

(Salteh) #8

your signature appears to be missing a " :slight_smile:

(psyco_mario) #9

Thats what it was missing! THANKS A TON!!! :slight_smile:

(Bravo) #10

It also does it on answering private messages

(psyco_mario) #11

sooo… now whats missing? lol

(kamikazee) #12

Of course, it actually pops up at any time a mail needs to be sent. (SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

It all depends on the place you post. Threads were no-one gets notified by mail won’t yield errors, others do. Same applies for PM’s.

(psyco_mario) #13

Anyone notice part of the error says etpub? lol

(MadMattUK) #14

drop both the " in your sig

like this

(kamikazee) #15

You forgot the [ code ] tags to make it clear:

[like this](http://www.splashdamage.com)

That should do it. :wink:

(Sauron|EFG) #16

Salteh haxed the forum!