One would think so....my MTA, Lyris, doesn't allow us to tweak settings at that level. I really have no idea what the time-out is set to internally, but I'm certain there is a reasonable one. Looking at this from my side it seems to be more complicated than a simple time-out issue. Cheers, Rick Rountree Network Operations Dundee Internet Services, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Tim Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:51 AM To: Rick Rountree Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Yahoo 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
