On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Devon wrote: > I'm curious as to why, when I use my server on my local server as the SMTP > server for an account on the server, it's responding fine, but when I use it > to send emails for other accounts, like my account I have with my ISP, it > takes forever to send it from my mail client to the mail server. > > I did have the verify return address option enabled, but I disabled it and > haven't had any change. > > Anyone know why this is taking so long?
I would guess it is either a DNS issue (where some part of your DNS or your ISPs DNS is setup wrong causing lookups to fail, etc.). Or.. more than likely, the ISP uses an MTA that does a auth (ident) check. This means their mail server will try to connect to yours on port 113 to see who is running the mail processes. This can be especially slow if you have a fireall or something that simply drops packets destined for that port (instead of instantly replying with a port closed message). There are a number of ident daemons for the Mac. I actually just run the old "Daemon" from Peter Lewis (of Anarchie/Interachie fame). It is not PPC native, but it runs fine and doesn't seem to slow anything down. It drastically speeds up sending to UNIX machines that use ident checks. -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
