Were you having problems with all outside hosts, or just some?
We're running ~2000 inbound and ~1000 outbound messages a day, and so
far only had one site (or one ISP, covering two sites) let us know they have
this problem.
> I had a similar problem - took a very long time to establish connections
> from outside my own network. It turned out to be DNS-related. Basically, I
> only allow specific ports through the router, and deny everything else.
i.e.
> I allow ports 22,25,110
> What I had to do was to allow packets with the ACK bit set to pass on
other
> ports i.e. the connection is established, and a port is negotiated for the
> server and client to talk on. The server then continues listening on the
> default SMTP and POP3 ports.
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