hi again, I checked with one customer who uses Ms Outlook Express, Outlook delayed... but using telnet on port 25 worked fine...
any idea? -- Mit freundlichem Gru� Henrik Steffen Gesch�ftsf�hrer top concepts Internetmarketing GmbH Am Steinkamp 7 - D-21684 Stade - Germany -------------------------------------------------------- http://www.topconcepts.com Tel. +49 4141 991230 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax. +49 4141 991233 -------------------------------------------------------- 24h-Support Hotline: +49 1908 34697 (EUR 1.86/Min,topc) -------------------------------------------------------- Ihr SMS-Gateway: JETZT NEU unter: http://sms.city-map.de System-Partner gesucht: http://www.franchise.city-map.de -------------------------------------------------------- Handelsregister: AG Stade HRB 5811 - UstId: DE 213645563 -------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "XMail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:50 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: SMTP delay while sending > > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Henrik Steffen wrote: > > > Hello Davide, > > > > some of our customers who relay mails through our XMailServer > > using SMTP-Auth experience problems. For some of them > > there is often a delay while connecting to the SMTP-Server. > > MS Outlook Express then alerts "The server did not respond > > within 60 seconds (...)". > > > > Some customers have allready increased the time out setting > > in MS Outlook Expr. to 90 or more seconds. But this unfortunately > > just leads to a yet longer delay, say 90 seconds until the > > same alert appears. > > > > I suspect that it has got something to do with some reverse-lookup > > or finger-request. Or maybe something is blocked by our firewall > > in these special cases. Or maybe it has even got to do something > > with a kind of "personal firewall" some of our customers might > > be using... > > > > Do you have any idea, where we would have to look into? > > It's clearly a network problem. Try to give instructions to one of your > customers to emulate an SMTP session and let him tell you where it'll > spend the time. > > > > - Davide > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
