I am attempting to use a variation of the AUTOTURN configuration described
in the serialmail docs for a customer with an intermittent connection. He
is the primary MX and we just queue it up in a Maildir until he connects.
While his connection is up, I can remove him from the 'virtualdomains'
file and send him mail directly without any difficulty. However, when I
either invoke maildirsmtp from tcpserver or from the command line,
maildirsmtp times out. From the mail server I can telnet to port 25 on
the remote box without any difficulty. I have even attempted running
maildirsmtp directly from the command line with the correct IP entered
directly (ie without relying on TCPREMOTEIP being correct. Here is the
command line I have been using:
maildirsmtp 206.144.237.21/ autoturn-206.144.237.21- 206.144.237.21 \
AutoTurn
No messages actually get transferred and after a minute or two I get this
error:
serialsmtp: fatal: network read error: timed out
And eventually maildirsmtp just gives up:
maildirserial: fatal: making no progress, giving up
I am running maildirsmtp as root, so there are no problems with perms on
the Maildir. The remote host is running sendmail. Here is what his
smtp greeting looks like:
220- creatureworks.com Sendmail 950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI.AUTO ready at
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:38:34 -0500
220 ESMTP spoken here
I am completely confused. Any ideas?
Ben
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