Re: [cobalt-users] XTR smtp mail server connectivity

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, David A. Kirk wrote:

> XTR  been running for nearly two months. When email is sent to my SMTP
> server  on  the  Cobalt  50%  of  the time it'll take over 1 minute to
> connect  to  the server. Outlook Express for example sits there with a

Well, just a thought, from the headers in this message,
Received: from dkirk-nt ([192.168.53.31])
you are exposing your internal LAN address, if you are presenting that
address to the mail server you may well be confusing it ;)

Other than that, maybe you just have slow DNS by way of whoeveris your
server for your own machine....try just looking up the MX address of the
server and see how long it takes to get a reply from your end...

Also keep in mind that sendmail checks that the to: address's domain name
resolves, so it has to look that up also...sending to say, aol, may take a
while on occasion...

lack of ident will cause a small delay also, tho it shouldn't timeout,
tho outlook is known for having too short a timeout interval...

gsh