From: Stephen Marley (stephen.marleycatwoman.cl-is.com)
Date: Wed Dec 01 2004 - 06:05:54 CST

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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:18:40PM -0800, Dave Smith wrote:
> There is nothing stuck in the outbox, however, I did
> some more telnet testing and when I telnet in to port
> 25 it seems to take a VERY long time for the bsd box
> to respond. Putty will sit for up to a minute before
> there is an initial response from sendmail. This
> doesn't seem right and my guess is that Outlook and OE
> don't wait that long and error out...

Sounds like either a DNS or ident issue. Check that you can resolve the
clients on the sendmail box (forward and reverse), and that you reject
rather than drop if you don't let ident pass.

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Network Systems Engineer, Datacentre Operations
Campbell Lee Internet Solutions <http://cl-is.com>

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