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Subject: Re: "Connection refused" not skipped
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 12:42:05 CST

Evidence from logfiles, please. Postfix logs all IP addresses
that it has tried for a domain before giving up.

Use: egrep 'mailin.webmailer.de' on your maillog file.

        Wietse

[J_rgen] Fluk:
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> We are still running 19990601 here (just in train to upgrade).
>
> Every now and then outgoing SMTP mails are deferred because the first IP
> address of
> an outside mailserver is not responding (Connection refused) even while the
> others
> would respond.
>
> E.g. the MX for "4c-ag.de" points to mailin.webmailer.de, and this one has
> 3 IPs
> Name: mailin.webmailer.de
> Addresses: 192.67.198.48, 192.67.198.37, 192.67.198.32
>
> I found the section on "postfix defers if the first MX responds 4xx or 5xx"
> (and does
> not try other MXs), but this sounds unrelated.
>
> Is the above setup non-conforming (and just happens to work with other
> MTAs),
> or do I miss some configuration item which fixes this behavior (why not try
> the
> other IP addresses)?
>
> louis
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