On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:34:50PM -0400, Rick Rountree wrote: > 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. If Yahoo's servers are failing to complete a transaction at all, that's definitely a serious problem. Yahoo's mail servers do seem to be having all kinds of indigestion lately. But if you could change your network timeout settings, you could at least prevent rogue sites from monopolizing your services this way. -- Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator and Chief Hacking Officer
