That log looks screwy. The transactions aren't in the right order.
It's as if two SMTP sessions are going on at once.

Look at Tools, Options, General. Is OE set to check for messages every
xx minutes?
At Tools, Options, Send, is OE set to Send Immediately?

If those are both set, turn one of them off.

If that's not the case, then the anti-virus might be mucking things up.
With some anti-virus (and anti-spam) programs, simply disabling the
e-mail scanning function doesn't really disable it. It simply tells the
program not to flag any messages. It still processes all the messages
and may still cause send/receive failures. What you may need to do is
uninstall the anti-virus program, then reinstall it using a custom
install option and unselect the e-mail scanning component for
installation.

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Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us



"Ron Hinds" wrote in message
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This is a very odd problem. I have one user (only one!) whose eMails
are sent twice, but only those eMails that are sent from another
application (e.g., File | Send from Word, etc.). If the eMail is sent
directly from OE, only one message goes. The Sent Items folder shows
only one message sent. But the eMail server log shows two messages
sent! There is nothing unusual about this user's environment - we are
all using XP SP3, with the same antivirus application. I enabled the
Mail log. Here is the latest transaction that doubled from that log:

Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.061107-0012)
SMTP Log started at 06/18/2010 14:22:04
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 220 mail.xxxxx.com
[XMail 1.26 ESMTP Server] service
ready; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:22:04 -0700
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] EHLO 071XXXXX
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-mail.xxxxx.com
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-VRFY
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-ETRN
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-8BITMIME
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-PIPELINING
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250 SIZE 11264000
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] AUTH LOGIN
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 334 VYNlcn5gaWU6
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] Yn13bHVzY2iib2ltZ0BxYW1gYx5ja20=
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 334 UGFzb3cvdnQ7
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] Yn13fiM=
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 235 Authentication successful
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] MAIL FROM:
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250 OK
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] RCPT TO:
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250 OK
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] DATA
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 354 Start mail input; end with CRLF.CRLF
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 220 mail.xxxxx.com
[XMail 1.26 ESMTP Server] service
ready; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:22:05 -0700
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] EHLO 071XXXXX
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-mail.xxxxx.com
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-VRFY
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-ETRN
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-8BITMIME
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-PIPELINING
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250 SIZE 11264000
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] AUTH LOGIN
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 334 VYNlcn5gaWU6
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] Yn13bHVzY2iib2ltZ0BxYW1gYx5ja20=
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 334 UGFzb3cvdnQ7
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] Yn13fiM=
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 235 Authentication successful
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] MAIL FROM:
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250 OK
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] RCPT TO:
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250 OK
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] DATA
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 354 Start mail input; end with CRLF.CRLF
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx]
.
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx]
.
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 250 OK S1207DC
SMTP: 14:22:05 [tx] QUIT
SMTP: 14:22:05 [rx] 221 [XMail 1.26 ESMTP Server] service closing
transmission channel
SMTP: 14:22:06 [rx] 250 OK S1207DD
SMTP: 14:22:06 [tx] QUIT
SMTP: 14:22:06 [rx] 221 [XMail 1.26 ESMTP Server] service closing
transmission channel




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