>>>Any ideas?
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>>A guess, but might it be limitations set by the SMTP server or ISP? Some have limitations such as:
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>>- Total # of messages per hour and per day
>>- Total # of recipients per hour and per day
>>- Total size of messages per hour and per day
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>>If you hit such a limitation you typically don't get any sort of error message or warning. I don't know how an SMTP server or ISP might respond to a perceived violation, but it's not impossible whatever they do could hang a SEND().
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>>If you have a good relationship with the server owner or ISP you could ask them if they've logged any unusual events around the times you're seeing these intermittent errors.
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>Thanks Al. We're actually sending to smtp.gmail.com as we use Google Apps for Business.
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>There should never be a circumstance that .send() completely hangs. What's the point of a timeout if there are scenarios that never time out?
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>If I can't resolve this issue I'll be forced to dump CDO and use a commercial alternative.

You can use CDO to send mails via http://www.smtp2go.com/ - pricing is reasonable

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>When the black box behaves, it's awesome. When the blackbox misbehaves, you're screwed.