Hi all, I have recently noticed a couple of interesting entries in one of my system logs from a Mail Relay Agent written using the TSMTPCli component, which raises a few interesting questions.
Firstly here is a small extract from the system log > 19:26:28 - Connecting to mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com > 19:26:47 - Disconnected from mail server - mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com > 19:26:47 - Connecting to mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com > 19:41:57 - Disconnected from mail server - mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com > 19:41:57 - Connecting to mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com > 19:57:06 - Disconnected from mail server - mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com The line that starts with "Connecting to" is written to the log as the connect method is called. The line that starts with "Disconnected from mail server" is written when the OnSessionClosed event handler is fired. So you can see, particularly from the last two lines, it took 16min 9sec to fire the event handler. Now, this is NOT a TWSocket problem. You can reproduce the problem from the DOS command line with "telnet mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com 25". However, it is important to find a solution to this problem as the relay engine is effectively being held up by this strange behaviour. What should be said is that the fact that the relay engine is even going to mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com as a result of spam, so it's possible that the spammer has found this interesting behaviour, and is exploiting it. Any suggestions on how I can prevent this behaviour from holding up my system in the future ?? Cheers Erich -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
