Sender File Adapter is not reading anything

Hi,
I have a really strange problem here. I'm tyring to read a file using file adapter (FTP) and the adapter doesn't read anything and it does not throw any error in the communication channel monitoring.
I'm using a receiver file adapter to write files to the same FTP folder, so it can't be a connectivity problem. And I tried to get the file using Filezilla and it works fine...
In the sender file adapter I tried to simplify the maximum to solve the problem:
- NO File Content Conversion
- NO advanced attributes
- I used the "*" in the file name to read any file
- I've only configured the FTP connection, the folder and the file name. I don't understand why it isn't working...

Yes I got this message:
Polling interval started. Length: 5,0 seconds
Now I tried something... In the FTP Connection parameters, I set as the server a random and unexisting name, and I get the same result...
I'm starting to thing that some firewall is blocking the connection, but I have to wait until next monday to know this. But I don't understand why the receiver FTP channel is working...
PD: The cache is correctly refreshed because I changed the polling interval time, and it has been updated on the monitoring

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Message was edited by:
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