Re: [cobalt-users] SMTP server on XTR

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3/29/01 03:16 PM -0500, you wrote:
> I've got my new XTR running well enough but I *frequently* get timeout error
> messages from my Outlook Express client  when I try to send a message. The
> Outlook client comes back with a message stating that it was unable to
> connect with the SMTP server and would I wish to wait another 60 seconds.
> Whenever I wait an additional 60 seconds the e-mail will always be sent
> during that second 60 second period of time. Often Outlook Express will
> state that there was no socket available, but not all of the times. Yes, I
> am aware that Outlook Express is not the most favorite of clients out there,
> and I've had this problem across Windows 98/ME/2000 with different versions
> so I'm inclined to believe it's something within the Cobalt XTR, maybe a
> configuration setting somewhere deep?

It sounds very much like a reverse-DNS issue. The mail server does a 
reverse DNS query on the IP that sent the message; if reverse DNS is not 
properly set up, the query will eventually time out and the mail will go 
through.

Verify that your reverse DNS is set up properly, and everything will 
probably work perfectly. If you can't do that, don't know how to do that, 
or find some errors, post again and we'll help you fix them.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx