Unfortunately I haven't spent any time on either of those things yet. I've
spent a significant amount of time trying to get the recipient validation
feature working but kinda lost steam a month or two ago. I'm gonna get back on
the horse here soon.
Can I just say again for the record that
I don't see anything in your config file that looks like a problem. Since it's
working for some connections and not others, I'd guess it's something about
those mailservers -- they're expecting some response (or something) that
spamdyke isn't sending, so the connection stalls. Can you try