Thanks Morphix. That does appear to be the problem alright. The Shaw mail servers are really slow to reply. "Telnet idcmail.shaw.ca 25" comes up with a blank screen for a minute or so before you get the banner.
Sadly my mail server IMAIL 7.1 doesn't respond to me changing my registry setting. »
support.ipswitch.com/kb/ ··· DM01.htmMy mail server times out in less then a minute. The RCF standard is 30 seconds.