I am also having similar issues and only with smtp. Bog standard Broadband setup, Vodafone router ADSL2 Using smtp.ihug.co.nz on port 25
When trying to send emails 1st they take a very long time to go thru (if they do) and 2nd they fail with authentication requesting a new password (I ignore this) and 3rd they eventually succeed on the 3rd to 6th retry, but very slow to send a complete message, 10-20 seconds.
Mail used to get consistently sent in under 1-2 seconds at most, but now persistently slow. Nothing changed here at all - using SeaMonkey Suite mostly and Firefox.
Yup just tried a test message again - went thru on the 4th retry rather than immediately - problem seems consistent...
Can anyone at Vodafone do a trace on my test message and check the port numbers being used?
My software says it's configured for port 25, but the default port for the SeaMonkey mailer software is 587, commonly used instead of 25 to improve security.
Could my software be sending on 587 regardless of the configured 25, ie a bug? How would the smtp server respond to a 587 port request, would it proxy it to port 25 (after a time) and let it thru?
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