Sendmail Access DB

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Feb 15 21:45:43 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:38 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> I'm using several milters on my setup, date, 7bit, gris, and null.
> I'm having an issue sending mail to a particular mailserver. I always
> get time outs waiting for greeting.
> 
> I was trying to add that domain to my access file, thinking that is
> the correct way to fix this error, but it doesn't seem to help.
> 
> my access file has:
> 
> @brokendomain.com     OK
> 
> Is this correct? Is this even the way to fix the problem with sending
> email to this domain?

Have you tried telnetting to that mailserver first:

	telnet mailserver.brokendomain.com 25

and verifying that it signs on?  It may just be really slow and is
truly timing out.  The only fix for that is to change your timeout
settings.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> -=/>Thom
> 
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