Uhhh, guys, you may be having internal mail problems, but for the last week I have been getting a lot of your emails here at the Museum. I have no idea why. But I've been deleting away and finally had a look today and realized that these aren't spams but are communications within your group. I'll keep deleting, but you might want to sort it out. Tracy Boychuck Assistant Director The Exploration Place [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramin Alidousti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gary Townsend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: February 19, 2002 4:04 PM Subject: Re: SMTP or Firewall Hiccup > Might be an ident problem... > What does tcpdump say? Do you block tcp/113? > > Ramin > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:12:20PM -0800, Gary Townsend wrote: > > > I have been having a problem with my Mail/Routing server. I'll try and > > describe it in as much detail as i can. The internal mail clients, > > outlook, eudora, netscape 4.x & 6.x, outlook express are timing out on > > send unless they set their timeout to over 2 minutes. > > > > I tried a raw connection to my mail server internally on port 25 and it > > was 2 minutes before i got the SMTP header. I tried this exact same > > experiment from my web server to my mail server on their external IP's > > and it worked instantly. > > > > The SMTP logs show connections adding up as if it connects but when it > > tries to reply it gets nothing. SO the smtp connections are > > incrementing. In fact because of the delay problem they are actually > > getting close to the max connections i have set for the smtp. > > > > > > Box Configuration: > > Linux Mandrake 8.1 > > Linux 2.4.8 > > qmail installed using Life-With-Qmail directions. > > iptables v1.2.2 > > Disk Config: > > /dev/sdb1 4.0G 396M 3.3G 11% / > > none 251M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/sda5 1.0G 4.0k 974M 1% /misc > > /dev/sdc1 4.2G 1.6G 2.4G 39% /usr > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Any ideas where i might look at the solution. > > > > -- > > ============================================== > > Gary Townsend > > Database Developer / Internet Services Administrator > > Spatial Mapping Ltd. > > 484 2nd Avenue > > Prince George, BC, Canada > > V2L 2Z7 > > > > http://www.spatialmapping.com > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > phone: 250 564 1928 > > fax: 250 564 0751 > > ============================================== > > > > > >
