Thanks for your reply. It turns out that all the problem was, was something resting on a few keys of the keyboard of my littl IIci mailserver. I guess that was enough to make it slow down. It's a slow computer but good enough for my small home network.
Where could I get this Ident Daemon? Thanks, Devon. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Laffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SIMS Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:16 AM Subject: Re: SMTP server > 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]> > ############################################################# 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]>
