>Any give me a push in the right direction as to why I am getting this >error? This person has not been able to send mail to gdar.org and always >produces this in the logs. > >05:29 10:57 SMTP-(00000B80) 472 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNS transaction timeout >05:29 10:57 SMTP-(00000B80) 472 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNS transaction timeout >05:29 10:57 SMTP-(00000B80) >QUIT >05:29 10:57 SMTP-(00000B80) 221 Catch you later
That's a problem on their end. The "SMTP-" processes are outgoing SMTP E-mail that IMail is sending to another server. The "472 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNS transaction timeout" means that there is a temporary problem on their end. It sounds like they have DNS problems. Doing some further investigation, it looks like the reason for the problem is that they are doing a reverse DNS lookup on your IP, but http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=65.205.109.3 shows that both DNS servers for the reverse DNS of your mailserver's IP address are not responding. That would result in a timeout. So although the problem is on their end (it seems that their DNS routines don't realize that some timeouts really mean that a DNS server is not going to be responding), there is something on your end that can be fixed that will prevent their problem from preventing you from sending your mail to them (if *that* makes any sense!). If you get the reverse DNS entries set up correctly, I'm guessing the mail will get sent properly. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
