[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not seeing anything unusual today - about the normal number of > timeout messages.
OK. > Do you mean TO_CONNECT? No; TO_COMMAND. TO_CONNECT refers to the timeout on connect() when Sendmail is acting as an SMTP client. TO_COMMAND refers to the timeout when Sendmail is acting as a server and waiting for the client to issue a command. In RFC 2821, I read: "An SMTP server SHOULD have a timeout of at least 5 minutes while it is awaiting the next command from the sender." so the Sendmail default of one hour seems much too conservative. > We have that set to 3 seconds in some cases, although I don't > remember at the moment why we set it so low. TO_CONNECT of 3 seconds is way too low. I would make it at least 30 seconds. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
