I had a strange problem with mails to gmx.net today. Every message to gmx.net got this error: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ I tried to do kill -ALRM [pid of qmail-send here] but I always got the same error... but I was able to telnet the (very slow) gmx mail server (mx0.gmx.net). I didn't knew any solutions... so I restarted my system ;( after that I did the kill -ALRM [pid of qmail-send here] again... and it worked! but 20% of the mails to gmx.net still had this deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ error... I restarted again... kill -ALRM [pid of qmail-send here] again.. now it worked! anybody already had the same problem? or know what the problem was? thanks for answers! cya Joel
