Repost - Messages seem to hang in the outbox

[Guest]

Reposting this in the hope that someone has seen this happening before.

Hi All

Not sure if this is a Windosw or Oulook problem but as it is only happening
on the WXP SP2 machines I suspect that it is a Windows issue.

We are currently usingWindows XP with SP1 and Office XP Professional with
Office SP3 (Outlook 2002 SP3). We have just deployed Windows XP SP2 to ten
trial users. Since receiving WXP SP2 the ten users are all reporting that
when they send an e-mail it hangs in there outbox for about 10-15 seconds
(outbox remains bold). The XP desktop firewal is switched off with all
options disabled via domain GPO's.

When sending a test e-mail to myself from an SP2 box it hangs for 10-15
second in the out box then arives in the inbox. However if I try this on an
SP1 box it almost immiediatly appears in the inbox.

When I say it appears to hang on the SP2 boxes this is because if you try to
open the outbox when the message is haning it appears in the in box. Further
whilst logged onto two machines, one SP1, one SP2 with outlook open on both,
I send a test message to myself from the SP2 box it appears to hang in the
outbox(SP2 box) but appears immediatly in the inbox of the SP1 machine.

If I send a test message to a nearby coleague the are receiving the e-mail
but it is still showing in my outbox.

Anyone know whats going on here?

Regards
Iain

 

[Guest]

SP2 by default turns on the Windows Firewall. Do you already have a firewall
on your network? If so, you might want to disable the Windows Firewall on the
SP2 PC's to see if that helps.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply Kathleen.

The XP firewall is off it was one of the first things that I thought of so
we globaly disabled it via the default domain GPO.

Because this happens so consistantly on all the SP2 machines I am sure that
someone else must have seen this before.

Thanks again for taking the effort to reply.