Hey there,
A client has been having issues with Freeform, EE form, and Communicate emails failing somewhat randomly. We’ve been trying for weeks to track down the issue.
Turns out, their server and exchange server are somewhat slow SOMETIMES, and what was happening, was the EE core email routines were timing out after 5 secs.
Looking at /core/core.email.php, there’s a setting, “smtp_timeout”, which defaults to 5 seconds. This should be plenty of time for most servers, but not this server…
Is there any way to override this setting without hacking the core file?
We’re running 1.6.9.
tx!