[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail slow to respond

[Johnny Cybermyth]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> This is strange.  Today, two different clients called me telling me 
> that they are unable to send email from Outlook.  They keep getting 
> a message that their connection timed out when connecting to the SMTP 
> server.

Are the clients running Norton antivirus and email scanning?  I have had 
these exact same problems with Outlook and the culprit was Norton. 
Norton updates itself every so often and really screws things up on the 
email side of things.