I had an issue with a site that timed out after 4 minutes with a message indicating
BLOCKING CALL CANCELED.
For me, it was a problem with our PTR record not being set. Not sure if that's your
issue but you might make sure your DNS has a ptr recort for your mail host.
bob
On Saturday, August 4, 2001 6:25 AM, R. Scott Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Can someone translate what the logs are saying here?
>
>>08:03 00:09 SMTP-(00001860) >MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>08:03 00:09 SMTP-(00001860) 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok
>>08:03 00:09 SMTP-(00001860) >RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>08:03 00:09 SMTP-(00001860) 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok
>>08:03 00:09 SMTP-(00001860) >DATA
>>08:03 00:09 SMTP-(00001860) 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>08:03 00:09 SMTP-(00001860) >.
>>08:03 00:13 SMTP-(00001860) s: s
>
>Here is the problem, although I can't say exactly what it is. It's taking
>4 minutes for the remote mail server to respond to the "." command, which
>it is required to respond to as soon as possible. The RFCs say it has to
>respond ASAP because if the TCP/IP connection is broken between the time
>IMail sends the "." and the remote server sends its response, IMail is
>required to assume that the E-mail was NOT delivered, even though it may
>have been. So IMail is doing the right thing in re-sending it.
>
>The questions are:
>
>o What is IMail's "s: s" log file entry?
>o Did the remote server really take 4 minutes to respond? If so, it is at
>fault.
>o If IMail didn't get a response to the ".", why did it send a QUIT command?
>o Why did the remote server respond to the "." when IMail sent the QUIT
>command?
>
>
>
>-Scott
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