On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 03:59:01AM -0400, Rick Rountree wrote:
> 
> My problems with Yahoo seem to be worsening every day.  Their servers don't
> seem to let go of a connection and eventually most of my available SMTP
> allocations are used by Yahoo servers.  I'll typically see around 180
> simultaneous connections to Yahoo servers...and they rarely finish the
> transaction.

This must be a dumb question, but doesn't your MTA time out if it
doesn't receive a response in a reasonable amount of time (like five
minutes)?  Couldn't you reduce that timeout to bring the number of
open connections down to a reasonable level?

-- 
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer

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