From: Steve Crawford (scrawfordpinpointresearch.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 14:11:00 CST

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Hard to say. Are you an Earthlink customer and trying to send from your
machine via the Earthlink SMTP server or are you outside and trying to email
to an Earthlink customer?

If you have tcpflow (my favorite, or etheral, etc.) on your system set it up
to record the conversation between your machine and Earthlink's. That could
yield some clues.

Cheers,
Steve

On Wednesday 31 December 1969 4:00 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> Postfix appears to suddenly have quit on me.
>
> I have a standalone box. I am running Linux, Mandrake 8.1.I am a single
> user with absolutely no connection to any networks.
>
> I have been sending emails with no problem whatsoever. However, suddenly
> messages got stuck in my mailque. I get this error message:
>
> C6D703492E 546 Tue Apr 1 14:15:43 paullocaldomain.net
> (host smtp.earthlink.net[207.217.121.221] said: 421
> flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net: SMTP command timeout - closing connection)
> phthenryearthlink.net
>
> I have chatted with earthlink support for a few hours now, and I keep
> getting the same message from them: "We don't support linux."
>
> If I keep trying to send the email, I get the same error message.
> Eventually, some of the emails might make it through. But most does not.
>
> I don't know where to start trying to fix this problem. I don't believe I
> should just send my whole main.cf problem. I have not changed a thing in
> any of my configuration files. I just opened my main.cf file, and it seems
> fine--not corrupted.
>
> I should also add that I can receive emails with no problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul

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