On 9 Mar 2005, at 22:31, David Sparks wrote:
As it usually turns out, I was mistaken. After firing up tcpdump on both the local and remote sides it because obvious that the problem is that the remote MTA (sendmail in this case) is the one doing the DNS lookups and timing out (after 56 seconds).
This could be hurt by the new code's aggressive timeouts. It's much more aggressive than the SMTP spec says it should be, and we probably need to work on that.
Matt.
