[cobalt-users] Re:Why are sendmail timeout settings commented-out on RaQ3

[Craig St George <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm wondering why those connections are kept open so long.. why don't 
they timeout? Well, i looked in sendmail.cf, and found >that most probably 
they don't timeout because those timeout settings are commented-out, like 
this:


OK If they are comment out then they use the defaults the defaults are the 
ones listed there anyway

I aslo have that problem form time to time it seems that some of the 
timeouts are set to high

I would appreate some input on that
It seems that a few servers connect get up to sending data and send none
and then they cause a lot of child process to start but they take so long 
to time out that eventually the server rejects mail for other uses

I think the ones to change are
Timeout.rcpt=1h
Timeout.datablock=1h
Timeout.datafinal=1h
Timeout.command=1h


I know that I can lowever these but are not sure if I lower them to 10 
minutes for example with this affect users on a dial up send 2 or 3 MB files

If anyone has ideas on this let us know
I have searched the archives and found a few ideas on this