[cobalt-users] wife is irked at slow smtp....can ya help

[Mark Huth <mhuth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, I was minding my own business at work when my wife called and 
commented that she was getting errors while sending mail.  She has Microsoft 
Outlook connecting to our cube3.  The cube serves family and a couple of 
friends.  She sent mail out with the usual instant response from the cube and 
then suddenly she couldn't get any response.  I logged into the cube from 
work via the web interface and all looked ok.  CPU lightly loaded, network 
lightly loaded, active monitor says everything working.  

When I got home, I checked and indeed outlook is timing out when attempting 
to smtp.  Pop works instantly.  

Spend several hours looking at the archives, both at the cobalt site and in 
the users group archives.  DNS access seems to be fast (indeed we use IP 
addresses in the server configuration on the windows box),   

Some background, our small home network is connected to our corporate network 
via a T1 and both sit behind a corporate firewall.  The only access allowed 
to the cube from the outside world is mail and web.  All other ports are 
closed.  We use the corporate dns, not the cube dns.  

I've stopped and restarted the smtp server.  Indeed one note in the archive 
suggested rebooting and that didn't help.  

Where do I go from here?

One last thing, running top shows a couple of things I don't recognize...

I've got a user called nobody running thttpd-phoenix and several processes 
running called pafnanny.  

Help??