No, found my problem. missed a name in /var/qmail/control/locals
had:
mydomain.dom
server.mydomain.dom
;
but missed "mail.mydomain.dom" which is the name i have for the
mail-server... :)
But Thanks for your time!
Tore
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: qmail mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:31 PM
Subject: RE: qmail-smtp problem
> > Have a strange problem with qmail-smtpd.. when i use pine
> > to send a mail from my mailserver..it stands for a long
> > time waiting before it sends the mail, same when i telnet
> > to port 25 from the mailserver to the mailserver...it takes
> > a while before the "220 hostname ESMTP" comes up..
> >
> > But if i send or telnet from another host it goes right away...
> >
> > Anyone have a pointer what might be wrong?
>
> You are probably starting qmail-smtpd using tcpserver, and the
> default "-r" option is causing it to attempt to connect to the ident
server
> on the host you are connecting from. Unless you specify "-R" in your
> tcpserver command line, it will do this, and then will wait for 26 seconds
> if there is no ident server answering the call. (You can read all about
> this in the tcpserver man page).
>
> You can fix this by turning off the TCPREMOTEINFO (ident) checks, or
> by running ident on your mailserver.
>
> --
> gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
