Re: Outbox traffic jam?

["Karl O . Pinc" <kop meme com>]

Wierd.  I just had a long delay and deferrment to the outbox of a reply to
this message.

FYI, The long delay's I've come across have had to do with ident timeouts. 
Sometimes the server is trying to ident.

On 2001.06.27 10:45 Scott Thomason wrote:
> I will reproduce and document the situation tonight. I wanted to
> experiment with resolver time-outs first in case it wasn't libesmtp, but
> it seems as if everything else is working fine.
> ---scott
> 
> >>> Brian Stafford <brian@stafford.uklinux.net> 06/27/01 10:38AM >>>
> On Wed, 27 June 16:15 Scott Thomason wrote:
> | I am still experiencing this same problem, even after downloading the
> | latest libesmtp-0.8.2 last night. However, I find that if I wait
> | patiently for many minutes (more than five), it eventually gets sent
> | out. It is quite disconcerting, though, not something I would want to
> | live with forever.
> 
> Delays of 5 minutes suggest something has deadlocked and is timimg out.
> 
> I am concerned to fix this problem, but I cannot without any diagnostic
> information.
> 
> Does the mail then get delivered or does the connection to the SMTP
> server drop.
> 
> Does the same bug happen with the example program in the libESMTP
> distribution?  If so, please send me the output from this program
> when using the --monitor option.
> 
> Alternatively, let me know the domainname of the server and I'll
> debug against it myself.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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