Edward Marczak wrote:
>
> Sendmail Mavens;
>
> I have a sendmail question that I hope someone can help with. I'm running a
> stock RH6.0 box with sendmail. It's been running fine except for one thing.
> I have one site, internal to us, that sendmail times out on. This site has
> their own IT, so they run their own mail server.
>
> I can telnet to port 25 of their box just fine, but sendmail gives me (names
> changed to protect the innocent):
>
> [root@mail /root]# mailq
>
> LAA17716* 2177 Mon Nov 29 11:29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.example2.com.)
>
> However, if I:
>
> [root@mail /root]# telnet mail.example2.com 25
> Trying w.x.y.z...
> Connected to mail.example2.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 example2.com ESMTP SomeSMTPServer.
> QUIT
> 221 example2.com SomeSMTPServer closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> ..and it comes up almost immediately.
Try typing in the HELO command and a message instead of issuing the QUIT
command. It's possible that the timeout is during the transaction, not
during the connection.
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