Re: Still being timed out...

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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 acli@mingpaoxpress.com wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.00.9807171414560.21937-100000@vip.maestro.com.pl> you write:
> >Well, after the upgrade to the latest zmailer version the time out
> >problems didn't vanish at all. I have a set of hosts which always time out
> >and apparently most of them (except two) use sendmails marked as 
> >8.8.5/8.8.5 or 8.8.5/8.8.7. The two exceptions are S-Mail and some
> >WinNT-based mailer. Also one server (namely mail2.redhat.com) didn't
> >reveal its identity, but I suspect they're using zmailer, right (at least
> >that's what I heard)?
> 
> Actually not. A telnet to mail2.redhat.com reveals
> 
>    $ telnet mail2.redhat.com smtp
>    Trying 199.183.24.247...
>    Connected to mail2.redhat.com.
>    Escape character is '^]'.
>    220 mail2.redhat.com ESMTP
>    help
>    214-qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html
>    214 send comments to qmail@pobox.com
That's right. Now I know it, but I have used an automated program that
collected just the first line the remote server output and logged that in
a file. That way I didn't have to browse the servers manually... the
method wasn't apparently perfect ;-))) Well, does anyone have any clue as
to what may cause the timeouts? It's certainly not a problem with the
network here nor with the delays between both ends - I have checked both
and they're ok. Also the timeouts don't appear when using (erp...)
sendmail... I don't know zmailer source well enough yet to spot the
problem - perhaps someone has had similar problems in the past and found
some cure to them?