Winsock Error 10053…
My Eudora email client started giving me a strange and frustrating error message the other day. Every time I sent out email, a Winsock network timeout error code 10053 showed up in the Task Errors window. Coincidentally, I had recently installed a few other minor applications so it was almost impossible to easily isolate the problem.
I tried uninstalling the other applications. Didn’t work. I tried reinstalling the same version of Eudora I’d been using for the last year or so, using virgin, freshly installed mailboxes. Didn’t work either. I even upgraded to the latest version: 6.03. Still didn’t relieve the problem. I checked the Microsoft and Qualcomm support websites, and the best solution they came up with was to blame the network card device drivers — same old tech problem: the software guys blame the hardware guys, and vice versa. On their advice, I upgraded the device driver. No luck. Winsock says that the error means “an established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine, possibly due to a data transmission timeout or protocol error.” Did installing a new Winsock version work? Nope.
Voodoo? Didn’t get that desperate. Although I was pretty darn close.
Turns out that there was something wrong at SBC Yahoo, my ISP. On a whim, I switched my email account settings to use one of their other SMTP servers, and everything has worked perfectly fine ever since.
No one proposed this solution in all my wanderings through the darkest regions of the ‘net. The solution to this aggravating problem is another of a growing number for which you can definitely say that you read it here first! Enjoy!
I’m getting the same error, but another machine on my LAN using the same smtp server can send mail fine. how’s about them apples? *sighs*
that definately did not solve the problem at all that is nothing more than a work around i cannot believe that after all this time there has not been a solid solucion to solving this problem!!
Thanks, USed other SMPT and POP address of my provider, problem gone !