Users have been constantly complaining that they get a message 

'SMTP server timed out, do you wish to wait for 60 seconds'

in a window with the buttons 'Wait' and 'Cancel' while using the
Microsoft Outlook Express to send an attachment. If mail has no
attchement it goes thru real fast.

If they use ftp to upload the same attachment file to their 
directory it uploads without a problem. This kind of test was made to 
see if there are any telephone line related problems--but no they 
do have a solid connection. They can upload the file with ftp to 
the same mail server, but NOT using the mail client, it just times 
out!

Please, if there is any one who could tell me what's going on I will 
highly appreciate.
I am at a point where I am about to change my mail server back to 
sendmail--YES I am about to give up on qmail. 

Thanks you all for your support.

Here is what shows on the server:
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# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat 
messages in queue: 1314
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
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[root@mail1 qmsindia]# df -k
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1               497667    196763    275202  42% /
/dev/sda9               396500    138150    237869  37% /home
/dev/sda2               792800    530433    221402  71% /usr
/dev/sda10             5538191   1175506   4075927  22% /v
/dev/sda3               894017    590488    257343  70% /var
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# ps faxw
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:53 init [3]
    2 ?        SW     0:04 [kflushd]
    3 ?        SW     0:00 [kpiod]
    4 ?        SW     0:02 [kswapd]
    5 ?        SW<    0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
  306 ?        S     26:44 syslogd -m 0
  317 ?        S      0:00 klogd
  331 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
  345 ?        S      0:00 crond
  391 ?        S      0:01 named
  405 ?        S      0:20 routed
  437 ttyS0    S      0:00 gpm -t ms
  481 ?        S      0:00 xfs
  496 ?        S      0:00 smbd -D
  507 ?        S      1:15 nmbd -D
  557 tty2     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
  558 tty3     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
  559 tty4     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
  560 tty5     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
  561 tty6     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
  563 ?        S      0:17 update (bdflush)
  564 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sshd
20063 tty1     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
27900 pts/0    S      2:39 qmail-send
27905 pts/0    S      0:16  \_ splogger qmail
27906 pts/0    S      0:14  \_ qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
27907 pts/0    S      0:01  \_ qmail-rspawn
 6716 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ qmail-remote velos.ssind.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
27908 pts/0    S      0:12  \_ qmail-clean
27901 pts/0    S      0:03 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -c120 -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 
-u502 -g500 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
29999 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
30017 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 1836 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 1853 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 2629 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 2641 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 3425 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 3426 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 3579 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 3614 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 3882 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 3883 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 3915 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 3933 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 4548 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 4553 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 5655 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 5665 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 6222 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 6227 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 6364 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 6391 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 6392 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 6450 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 6460 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 6640 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 6658 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ bin/qmail-queue
 6768 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -c120 
-x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u502 -g500 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtp
 6782 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 6783 pts/0    S      0:00      \_ bin/qmail-queue
27902 pts/0    S      0:00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd
27903 pts/0    S      0:06 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -v 0 pop-3 
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail1.kode.net /bin/checkpassword /v
 5802 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail1.kode.net 
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
 5803 pts/0    S      0:00  |   \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
 6713 pts/0    S      0:00  \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail1.kode.net 
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
 6749 pts/0    S      0:00      \_ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
27904 pts/0    S      0:10 /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3

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Shakaib

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